Frederick C Schultz

US Patent:

20010056391, Dec 27, 2001

Filed:

Jan 16, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/759337

Inventors:

Frederick Schultz - Darnestown MD, US

International Classification:

G06F017/60

US Classification:

705/036000, 705/026000, 705/037000

Abstract:

The present invention relates to stock options, and more specifically to a method and system for managing and optimizing stock options via a communications network. In an embodiment of the present invention, a method of optimizing the value of stock option grants using a communications network includes: receiving an option-exercising scenario for a stock option grant; calculating an estimate for the option-exercising scenario for the stock option grant; comparing the estimate for the option-exercising scenario for the stock option grant against an estimate based on a standard strategy option-exercising scenario; and calculating an optimal strategy to maximize the value of the stock option grant based on one of the estimate for the to option-exercising scenario for the stock option grant and the estimate based on the standard strategy option-exercising scenario.