Louis Arnold Guth

US Patent:

20100161386, Jun 24, 2010

Filed:

Dec 22, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/644970

Inventors:

Christopher Paul Rabalais - Humble TX, US
Emin Alper Ozgit - Northbrook IL, US
Louis Guth - Jupiter FL, US
Carlos Miguel Duran, JR. - Rio de Oro-Santa Ana, CR

International Classification:

G06Q 40/00
G06Q 10/00
G06Q 50/00

US Classification:

705 10, 705348, 705 37, 705 36 R

Abstract:

This invention provides risk management systems and methods for enterprises associated with a wide variety of sports activities, e.g., sports having individual athlete participants as well as sports having team participants; sports activities having regional, national, or international scope; professional and non-professional sports activities; and so forth. In preferred embodiments, the systems and methods of this invention derive models of the economic values and of associated economic risks of particular sports activities and provide indices reflecting model computations. In further preferred embodiments, the system and method of this invention provide financial instruments having values that derive from one of the provided indices, index computing systems, and exchange or trading platform systems by which such derivative contacts can be valued and traded.