TODAY’S PATENT – VISIBLE REPRESENTATION OF STOCK MARKET INDICES

Stock market indices invention (US7928982B1) was invented by Cary D. Perttunen and patented by USPTO on April 19^th, 2011.

Fidelity Investments’ website features a tool called “Map of the Markets” that visually represents stocks in the stock market using rectangular shapes. However, the current representation lacks clarity in showing how individual stocks relate to each other.

This invention presents improved methods for organizing and representing financial information, such as stocks, bonds, and commodities. The information is organized into a tree structure based on similarities between the items. Additionally, the items can be further organized by determining an optimal depth-first search of the tree, considering factors like the order of item consideration and similarity values between pairs of items in the tree.