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             Appeal 2007-0114                                                                                    
             Application 10/990,960                                                                              

                   1.  A computerized method for predicting a price movement in a                                
                   financial market comprising:                                                                  
                                 generating at least one output value, comprising:                               
                                 choosing an output variable indicative of price                                 
                   movements in a financial market;                                                              
                                 choosing a plurality of input variables that are market-                        
                   related to the output variable;                                                               
                                 obtaining market data for the output variable and the                           
                   input variables over a predetermined time period;                                             
                                 constructing at least one training set of data from the                         
                   obtained market data for the output variable and the input variables;                         
                                 calculating a weight to be assigned to each of the input                        
                   variables using the at least one training set of data to reflect a                            
                   correlation between the output variable and the input variable as found                       
                   in the obtained market data; and                                                              
                                 generating an output value for the output variable to                           
                   predict a next price movement in the financial market based on the                            
                   calculating of the weights; and                                                               
                                 predicting the next price movement in the financial                             
                   market based on a majority of output values being substantially the                           
                   same.                                                                                         
                   3.  The computerized method of claim 2, wherein the choosing                                  
                   input variables comprises:                                                                    
                          calculating a variable from a plurality of existing financial                          
                   variables available in the financial market; and                                              
                          choosing the calculated variable as a second one of the plurality                      
                   of input variables.                                                                           
                   8. A computer-readable medium on which is encoded program                                     
                   code, the program code comprising:                                                            
                          program code for generating at least one output value,                                 
                   comprising:                                                                                   
                          program code for choosing an output variable indicative of                             
                   price movements in a financial market;                                                        
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