GB2450284A - Finance event analysis supporting apparatus,finance event analysis supporting system, and program - Google Patents

Abstract

Analysis of a finance event is facilitated, and creation of information useful for investment and financial/security product sales promotion is promoted. An event acquiring section (14) of an analysis supporting apparatus (1) acquires data on a finance event from a finance database server (3) in response to a request of a Web browser (8) of a client terminal (7). A selecting/dividing block (15a) of a data edit section (15) acquires predetermined data from the data acquired by the event acquiring section (14) and divides the data into predetermined units. Container block (15b) has a display area where cells are arranged in a matrix, arranges the divided data into cells, and sends them to the Web browser (8). In the display area displayed by the Web browser (8), cells are so arranged that one of the row and column direction is taken as a short-time coordinate and the other is taken as a long-time coordinate the one unit of which is the whole time included in the short time coordinate.

Description

SPECI FICATION

FINANCE EVENT ANALYSIS SUPPORTING APPARATUS, FINANCE

EVENT ANALYSIS SUPPORTING SYSTEM AND PROGRAM

TECHNICAL FIELD

1] The present invention relates to a technology for providing a tool which enables us to easily perform an analysis of an information in a financial business

field.

BACKGROUND ART

2] People engaging in financial/security industries and investors gather information on a firm's finance (which is an act to change funds or capital performed by an organization such as a firmetc.) The information is multilaterally analyzed and used for offering proposals or suggestions on the capital policy etc. to the relevant firm or other firms, or for deciding whether an investment should be made or not. Generally, a financial information is composed of a number of events (events at specific times such as a specific date) and is huge in volume, so that a large volume of work is required in collecting and managing them, thus being inconvenient. Accordingly, there is known a finance event analysis supporting apparatus which acquires data of the event of a finance (hereinafter called as a

"finance event" in this specification) stored in a

database and then displays the acquired data on a terminal (for example, Patent Document 1: Republished Japanese translations of PCT international publication for patent application Saihyo 2004 / 010359) . People in security business and investors conduct an analysis of the finance events displayed on the terminal screen.

And, from the result of the analysis, they predict a future business climate or share price of the firm and provide the relevant firm and other firms with proposals or suggestions on the capital policy etc. or they make an investment or offer financial/security products (hereinafter "investment banking services" is used as a generic term for these services)

DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION

PROBLEMS TO BE SOLVED BY THE INVENTION

3] However, in the database of the Patent Document 1, each finance event is stored separately by firm or by organization analogous to a firm, so that a specific finance event of the firm or the organization analogous to a firm is only displayed on the terminal screen of the finance event analysis supporting apparatus of the above mentioned Patent Document 1. Accordingly, it is difficult for a user of the device of the above mentioned Patent Document 1 to grasp the regularity of a plurality of finance events or the relevancy between each information and to derive an accurate result from an analysis based on this grasp. Accordingly, it is difficult for the user to predict a possible future finance event, business climate or share price.

Therefore it is difficult for the user to form a high-value information useful for the investment banking services, thus being inconvenient.

4] The present invention is made in consideration of such circumstances and has an object to provide a finance event analysis supporting apparatus and a finance event analysis supporting system able to allow people in financial and security business and investors to derive unerring results by easily analyzing finance events and able to facilitate the forming of an information useful for investment banking services.

MEANS FOR SOLVING THE PROBLEMS

[00051 In order to solve the above mentioned problems, a first aspect of the present invention is a finance event analysis supporting apparatus which displays multiple finance events each of which is an act at a specific time for making a change in funds or capital by an organization of a company etc., on the display means of a terminal.

6] The apparatus comprises: event acquiring means for acquiring data of the finance events recorded in a database; and data compiling means for forming a matrix-like event display region, one of row and column directions is taken as a short time coordinate, the one unit of which is the specific time and the other is taken as a long-time coordinate, the one unit of which is the whole time included in the short time coordinate, arranging the finance event data acquired by the event acquiring means in the event display region, and displaying the data on the display means of the terminal.

7] A second aspect of the present invention is that in addition to the first aspect, the event acquiring means acquires the finance event data of one firm.

8] A third aspect of the present invention is that in addition to the first aspect, in the event display region, the data compiling means forms the short-time coordinate for which one month is used as one unit and the long-time coordinate for which one year is used as one unit.

9] A fourth aspect of the present invention is that in addition to the first aspect, in the event display region, the data compiling means forms the short-time coordinate for which one day is used as one unit and the long-time coordinate for which one week is used as one unit.

0] A fifth aspect of the present invention is that in addition to the first aspect, the data compiling means displays a detailed information of a specific finance event or an information relating to the finance event on the terminal, based on a request from the terminal.

1] A sixth aspect of the present invention is that in addition to the fifth aspect, the information relating to the finance event is an article placed in a newspaper or magazine or news uploaded onto a web server.

2] A seventh aspect of the present invention is a finance event analysis supporting system comprises: a finance event acquiring apparatus according to claim 1; and at least one database selected from the group consisting of a database in which data of a finance event which is an act at a specific time for making a change in funds or capital by an organization of a company etc. is recorded and a database in which an information relating to the finance event is recorded.

100131 An eighth aspect of the present invention is that

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in addition to the seventh aspect, the information relating to the finance event is an article in a newspaper or magazine or news uploaded onto a web server.

4] A ninth aspect of the present invention is a program for making a computer function as a finance event analysis supporting apparatus according to claim 1.

EFFECTS OF THE PRESENT INVENTION

5] According to the first aspect mentioned above, a finance event analysis supporting apparatus which displays multiple finance events each of which is an act at a specific time for making a change in funds or capital by an organization of a company etc., on display means of a terminal, the apparatus comprising: event acquiring means for acquiring data of the finance event recorded in a database; and data compiling means for forming a matrix-like event display region one of row and column directions is taken as a short time coordinate, the one unit of which is the specific time and the other is taken as a long-time coordinate, the one unit of which is the whole time included in the short time coordinate, arranging the finance event data acquired by the event acquiring means into the event display region,

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displaying the data on the display means of the terminal.

Therefore, each finance event can be displayed as a location information of matrix-like shape the units of which are taken as a plurality of time series.

Accordingly, the user of the terminal can visually and intuitively grasp the generation condition and the contents of each finance event, the relevancy between the finance events etc. by overviewing the images displayed on the terminal display means. The user of the terminal can easily analyze finance events and derive an accurate (unerring) analysis results, being able to enhance the forming of an information useful for investment banking services.

6] According to the second aspect of the present invention, the event acquiring means acquires the finance event data of one firm. Accordingly, finance event specialized in one firm can be displayed in a multiple time series as a unit. Therefore, it is possible for the user of the terminal to easily analyze the finance event of one firm and accurately derive analysis results, being able to further enhance the forming of an information useful for investment banking services.

7] According to the third aspect of the present

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invention, in the event display region, the data compiling means forms an event display region, one of the row and column directions is taken as one coordinate for which 0one month is used as one unit and other is taken as another coordinate for which one year is used as one unit. Therefore, the finance event can be displayed by year and month as a unit on the terminal. Accordingly, the user of the terminal can overview, on the long term basis, the finance events by year and month as a unit, being able to further enhance the forming of an information useful for investment banking services.

8] According to the fourth aspect of the present invention, in the event display region, the data compiling means forms the short- time coordinate for which one day is used as one unit and the long-time coordinate for which one week is used as one unit Therefore, the finance event can be displayed by one month and one day as a unit on the terminal. Accordingly, the user of the terminal can overview, on the short term basis, the finance events by one month and one day as a unit, being able to enhance the forming of an information useful for investment banking services.

9] According to the fifth aspect of the present invention, the data compiling means displays a detailed information of a specific finance event or an information relating to the finance event on the

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terminal, based on a request from the terminal.

Therefore, in addition to the overview of a plurality of finance events, detailed information and related information of the specific finance event can be jointly confirmed, being able to further enhance the forming of an information useful for investment banking services.

[Oo2oJ According to the sixth aspect of the present invention, an article in a newspaper or magazine etc. and news uploaded onto the web server are used as the finance event relating information, being able to display information on past topics in connection with the finance event on the terminal. Accordingly, the user of the terminal can easily grasp the effects of the past finance events or can predict finance events after the time point of the data of the article, being able to enhance the forming of an information useful for investment banking services.

1] According to the seventh aspect of the present invention, the finance event analysis supporting system comprises: a finance event acquiring apparatus according to claim 1; and at least one database selected from the group consisting of a database in which data of a finance event which is an act at a specific time for making a change in funds or capital by an organization of a company etc. ) is recorded and a database in which an information relating to the finance event is recorded. Using the system having databases and the finance event analysis supporting apparatus, forming of information useful for investment banking services can be enhanced.

2] According to the eighth aspect of the present invention, the finance event relating information is an article of a newspaper or magazine etc. or news uploaded onto the web server. Understanding the effects of the past finance event and predicting finance events after a time point when the article data appeared can be facilitated, being able to further enhance the forming of an information useful for investment banking services.

3] According to the ninth aspect of the present invention, the present invention can be realized on various computer hardware by programming the present invention.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

4] Fig. 1 is a view showing a system configuration diagram and functional block diagram of a finance event analysis supporting system of the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a view showing an image of a bond table recorded in a finance database.

Fig. 3 is a view showing an image of a stock event table recorded in the finance database.

Fig. 4 is a view showing an image of an article data recorded in an article database server 5.

Fig. 5A is a flow chart showing a processing procedure of the finance event analysis supporting system of the present invention.

Fig. 5B is a flowchart showing a processing procedure of the finance event analysis supporting system of the present invention.

Fig. 6 is a view showing an image of a search page displayed on the web browser.

Fig. 7 is a view showing an image of a multi-year calendar table displayed on the web browser.

Fig. 8 is a view showing a detailed setting screen displayed on the web browser.

Fig. 9 is a view showing an image of an event display column displayed on the web browser.

Fig. 10 is a view showing an image of a detailed data display page displayed on the web browser.

Fig. 11 is a view showing an image of an article data display page displayed on the web browser.

Fig. 12 is a view showing a single year calendar table displayed on the web browser.

Fig. 13 is a view showing a month calendar table displayed on the web browser. )

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION

5] Embodiment of the present invention will be explained with reference to Figs. 1 to 13.

FIRST EMBODIMENT

6] Fig. 1 is a view showing a system configuration diagram and functional block diagram of a finance event analysis supporting system of the embodiment of the present invention. As shown in Fig. 1, the finance event analysis supporting system (hereinafter referred to "analysis supporting system") 1A comprises a finance event analysis supporting apparatus (hereinafter referred to "analysis supporting apparatus") 1, a communication server 2, a finance database server (database) 3, a communication server 4, and an article database server (database) 5. The analysis supporting apparatus 1 and the communication server 4 communicate with each other through the internet 6. The analysis supporting apparatus 1 is connected to a client terminal 7 having a display section (display means) 9 through the Internet 6.

7] The analysis supporting apparatus 1 is a computer having a web server function and comprising, as shown in Fig. 1, a control section 11, a storage section 12, andacommunication interface section (I/F section) 13a, 13b.

8] The control section 11 has a CPU (Central ) Processing Unit) and is configured to perform an arithmetic processing such as an OS (Operating System) program stored at the storage section 12 and various application programs and also to control the whole analysis supporting processing.

9] At the control section 11, an event acquiring section 14 and a data compiling section 15 is formed as functional means. These functional means are realized by making an application program recorded in the storage section 12 to collaborate with the CPU etc. of the controlling section 11.

0] The event acquiring section 14 acquires, based on a request from the client terminal 7, data of the finance event recorded in the finance database 3 or an article data (described later) etc. recorded in the article database server 5. Here, the event acquiring section 14 acquires a record of each table in the finance database 3 as a unit. Corresponding relationship between the requirement from the client terminal 7 and a record group to be acquired is previously determined.

1] The data compiling section 15 forms an event display region (described later) displaying various data on the client terminal 7 and forms the data acquired by the event acquiring section 14 into such a manner that is easily viewable on the screen at the client terminal 7, and sends the formed data to the client terminal 7. )

[00321 More specifically, the data compiling section 15 has a selecting/sorting section 15a and a container section 15b. The selecting/sorting section l5a selectively acquires the data of a prescribed item from the data acquired by the event acquiring sect ion 14. The acquired data is sent to the client terminal 7 as the web page or is sorted by the prescribed time period (for example, by month or by year) and then sent to the container section 15b.

[0033) The container section 15b forms a plurality of a matrix-like display regions (described later) having the prescribed time period (the same period as the period sorted by the selecting/sorting section 15a) as a unit and arranges each data acquired and sorted by the selecting/sorting section 15a at a prescribed position of the matrix. A table in which data are arranged is sent to the client terminal 7 as a web page. In addition, data selected by the selecting/sorting section 15a are important items (for example they are bond redemption or bond issuing or public offering of stock, stock splits etc.)in the finance event and which items should be acquired is previously determined according to a request from the client terminal 7.

4] The storage section 12 comprises ROM to which a loading program etc. are previously stored, RAM which is configured to be functioned as a working region of ) the control section 11 (CPU) and to temporarily store programs and data, EEPROM to which data to be rewrited are stored, and hard disc etc. to store various file data etc. In the hard disc, OS programs and various application programs are stored.

[00351 The communication interface sections 13a, 13b are UTP cable ports, or optical cable ports or various device drivers, which are configured to connect a LAN cable or an optical cable and to perform necessary processing for data communication between the communication servers 2 and 4.

6] The finance database server 3 has a large scale storage region (hard disc etc.), and the finance event data are stored in it (the contents of data will be described later) [0037] In the article database server 5, data of news articles in the past newspapers, magazines etc., and news articles uploaded onto the web server are stored (details of the news article data will be described later) . There may be a plurality of article database servers 5.

8] The communication servers 2, 4 are web servers and perform processing necessary to send data from the finance database server 3 to the analysis supporting apparatus 1 through LAN (Local Area Network) and to send data from the article database server 5 to the analysis ) supporting apparatus 1 through the internet 6.

[0039) The client terminal 7 is a mobile communication terminal such as a personal computer, a personal digital assistance (PDA), a cell-phone unit etc. and able to perform data communication under a network environment.

The client terminal 7 has a display section 9 comprised of LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) on which various image data are displayed. Aweb browser software is installed on the client terminal 7, and a web browser 8 is displayed on the display section 9. The web browser 8 performs data communication with the analysis supporting apparatus 1 using HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol) [0040] In the finance database 3, the finance event is recorded as a table group of "products". Here the "products" is a general term for the means to be achieved in the finance event and corresponds, for example, to bond, (common) stock, classified stock, share warrant etc. The table group of the "products" is an aggregate of an "entity" which is a data storage unit. For example, the "entity" of the "bond" is an individual bond itself, and the table of "stock event" is an individual event itself such as a public issue or a stock split.

1] Fig. 2 is a view showing an image of one bond table recorded in the finance database 3. The bond table 31 is shown as an example of data of one firm (here "00 Industry") which is an issuer of a bond. The bond table ) 31 has the number of columns corresponding to the number of recorded items. The recorded items of the bond table 31 are issuer, current issuer, fund raiser, classification, way of offering, issue No., amount of issue, issued price, interest rate, JGB spread, swap spread, issue market, date of decision, date of corporate resolution, issue date, date of maturity, how to redempt, lead manager, representative bond manager, FA (all are shown in Fig. 2) as well as issuing charges, total amount paid, total amount of funds raising, presence or absence of simultaneously-issued bond, asset back etc. (not shown in Fig. 2) [0042] Fig. 3 is a view showing an image diagram of one stock event table recorded in the finance database 3.

The stock event table 32 is shown as an example of data of one firm (here "00 Industry") who is an issuer. The stock event table 32 has the number of columns corresponding to the number of recorded items. The recorded items of the stock event 32 are issuer, classification, pattern, the number of new issue stock, total number of stocks sold, stock split ratio, issue price, discount rate, underwriting free rate, issue resolution date, release date, date of allotment, subscription starting date, subscription ending date, date on which price is determined, lead manager, allotted firm (all are shown in Fig. 3) as well as kind ) of stock, nominal par, base time point of estimate, tentatively set price range determination date, price determination date, due date of payment, date for delivery, proposed effective date, demand prediction starting date, demand prediction ending date, deciding date of calculation etc. (not shown).

3] Fig. 4 is a view showing an image of an article data recorded in the article data sever 5. As shown in Fig. 4, the article data forms an article data group 51 having the name of newspaper or news agency who placed or sent out the news article, the placing date or posting date and time, the title of the article, the body of the article, etc. In order to make it easy to search a finance event-relating article data, as shown in Fig. 4, a "stock code (which is used when transaction is performed)" of the article-relating stock or bond is preferably assigned to each article data.

[0044) Figs. 5A and 5B illustrate a flowchart showing processing procedures of the finance event analysis supporting system of the present embodiment.

Hereinafter the details of the processing of the finance event analysis supporting system will be described based on the flowchart.

10045] At first, the user of the client terminal 7 displays the search page to search for a finance event on the web browser 8 of the relevant client terminal 7.

A plurality of searching pages is prepared. And these pages are selected by a selection button (characters on the button represent a function of the button) at the far left of the page in accordance with the purpose of the user.

6] Fig. 6 is an image view of one example of the search page. This search page 81 is displayed when the finance event of a specific firm is searched (this case is refereed to "case 1") . In the search page 81, there is an issuer input column 81a into which firms name that is an issuer of a stock or bond is input and a code input column 81b into which stock code of the issuer is input.

The user of the client terminal 7 inputs either a firm' s name into the issuer input column 8la or inputs a stock code into the code input column 81b. When a search execution button 81c is clicked (Step Si), the event acquiring section 14 of the analysis supporting apparatus 1 searches the finance database server 3 for a table (bond table 31, stock event table 32,... etc.) corresponding to the searching condition. It there is a record corresponding to the searching condition, the acquiring section acquires the record (Step S2) . In a case where the search is performed under different conditions, another search page is displayed on the web browser 8 at the step Si, and another condition (for example, a target kind or a displaying time period etc. of a finance event) is input on the displayed search page, then the search button is clicked.

7] As for the contents of concrete processing at Step S2, for example in "case 1" where "00 Industry" or "00 Industry Kabushiki Kaisha" is input into the issuer input column 81a. of the search page 81, the event acquiring section 14 acquires a record of entity which relates to the "00 Industry Kabushiki Kaisha" such as a record having an. issuer name of "00 Industry Kabushiki Kaisha" in the bond table 31, a record having an issuer name of "00 Industry Kabushiki Kaisha" in the stock event table 32, a record having an issuer name of "00 Industry Kabushiki Kaisha" in the classified stock table (not shown), a record having an issuer name of "00 Industry Kabushiki Kaisha" in the share warrant table (not shown)... etc. [0048J When a "bond redemption" is designated as a target finance event from another search page (not shown) (hereinafter this case is refereed to "case 2") , the event acquiring section 14 acquires a relevant record from the bond table 31.

9] On the other hand, when the procedure of Step Si is performed, the event acquiring section 14 of the analysis supporting apparatus 1 searches the article data group 51 of the article database server 5 for the relevant article data. If the relevant data is found, the event acquiring section 14 acquires the data (Step S3) . In particular, for example in "case 1" and "case 2", the event acquiring section 14 acquires an article data relating to "00 Industry". At this time, the search conditions executed by the event acquiring sectionl4 are considered to be an article data including "00 Industry" in the article body and article's title or an article data having a stock code of "00 Industry" when the stock code is included in an item of the article database server 5.

0] When the search and acquiring of the data is completed, the data compiling section 15 compiles the acquired data into a multiple year calendar table (Step S4) [0051] Specifically, selecting/sorting section 15a selects and acquires data (data of "redemption date", "issuing date" in bond table 31, data of "new listed date" in stock event table 32 etc.) of a prescribed items from the table of acquired entity, and acquired data are sorted by one month unit. For example, concerning the data acquired from the bond table 31 or the stock event table 32 in "case 1", the selecting/sorting section iSa acquires data (2002. 4. 16) of "(stock split) issue resolution date", data (2002. 6. 30) of "(stock split) of allotment date" and data (2002. 8. 15) of "(stock split) effective date" and they are sorted into a data ) of April 2002, June 2002 and August 2002 respectively.

The selecting/sorting section 15a acquires other data, sorts them and gives all sorted data to the container section l5b in a similar way mentioned above.

2] The container section 15b forms a table having rectangular cells arranged in a matrix-like manner.

The formed cell constitutes a display region of data for one month. The container section 15b disposes the data given from the selecting/sorting section 15a into the relevant cell. For example, in a case where data acquired from the bond table 31 or stock event table 32 are sorted in "case 1", cells for 5 years (60 cells) are prepared and then data of "issue resolution date" is put into the cell of April 2002, "date of allotment" is put into the cell of June 2002 and "effective date" is put into the cell of August 2002. And to complete the table, the container section 15b puts other data given from the selecting/sorting section 15a into the relevant cells.

3] The container section 15b forms the multiple year calendar table as the compiled result (a completed table) on the web page and sends the table back to the web browser 8 and displays the table on the web browser 8.

[0054) Fig. 7 is a view showing an image diagram of the multiple yearcalendar table displayed on the web browser 8. The event display region 82a of the multiple year calendar table 82 in Fig. 7 is formed with 60 cells arranged in a matrix manner of 5 rows (In "case 1", the number of years designated is 5 years, and the number of years is variable according to the request from the client, and therefore the number of years is not constantly limited to 5 rows) x 12 columns. These cells are arranged on the short-time coordinate (in the column direction) for which one month is set as one unit (one column corresponds to one month) (January to December) and the long-time coordinate (in the row direction) for which one year is set as one unit (one row corresponds to one year.) . As the results of the processing in "case 1" at the step S3 and S4 mentioned above, 5 years worth of finance event (January 2002 to December 2006) of "00 Industry" are shown as character data in the cells of the event display region 82a. For example, in the cell 82c of April 2002, in the cell 82d of June 2002 and in the cell of 82e of August 2002, characters "stock: resolution" indicating "issue resolution date", characters "stock: allotment" indicating "date of allotment" and characters "stock: stock split effective" indicating "effective date" are displayed respectively. In other cells, characters as a result of the processing at steps S3, S4 are indicated.

5] Using this multiple year calendar table 82, a finance event can be displayed on the client terminal ) 7 on a year/month basis. Therefore, the user of the client terminal 7 can overview the finance event at an yearly-monthly intervals from a long-term viewpoint.

6] In the multiple year calendar table 82, a detailed display period setting button 82f for changing/detailed setting of a display period of the event display region 82a and an event selection column 82g for selecting a kind of finance event to be displayed are provided. When the detailed display period setting button 82f is clicked, a detailed setting screen 82h shown in Fig. 8 is displayed on the web browser 8 so that changing/detailed setting off the period can be performed.

In addition, when a right side button 82i on the event selection column 82g is clicked, an event selection column 82g as shown in Fig. 9 is unfolded, so that kind of finance event to be displayed can be selected. Under this state, when an application button 82j and a searching execution button 82k is clicked, processing of the steps Si to S3 are performed again and a new multiple year calendar table (not shown) is displayed.

[0057) Next, under the state where the multiple year calendar table 82 is displayed on the web browser 8, when any one of character which represents an individual finance event is clicked from the client terminal 7 (Step S6), the event acquiring section 14 of the analysis supporting apparatus 1 searches the finance database server 3 and acquires data of detailed information of the relevant individual finance event. After the completion of searching and acquiring of data by the event acquiring section 14, the selecting/sorting section 15a of the data compiling section 15 selects and acquires a prescribed data from the acquired data. The acquired data is compiled into the form of a detailed data display page (Step S7) and the detailed data display page as the results of compilation is formed on the web page and sent back to the web browser 8 and then is displayed on the web browser 8 (Step S8).

[0058) Fig. 10 is a view of an image diagram of the detailed data display page displayed on the web browser 8. The detailed data display page 83 shown in Fig. 10 is displayed on the web browser 8 as the results of clicking either one of the characters 821, 82m and 82n of the "stock split" shown in the cell 82c of April 2002, the cell 82d of June 2002, the cell 82e of August 2002 in the multiple year calendar table 82 (Fig. 7) . When the character 811, 82m or 82n is clicked, the event acquiring section 14 acquires a record corresponding to "00 Industry" from the stock event table 32. And selecting/sorting section 15a acquires the prescribed data of issue resolution date, effective date, kind of stock etc. from the relevant record in the acquired stock event table 32 and forms the detailed data display page ) 83. In addition to the multiple year calendar table 82, the detailed information of a specific finance event is displayed on the client terminal 7 using the detailed data display page 83 which accordingly enables the user of the client terminal 7 to confirm the detailed information of the specific finance event.

9] On the other hand, when the character of "news" displayed on a cell of a specific month of the relevant multiple year calendar table 82 is clicked (Step S9) under the condition where the multiple year calendar table 82 is displayed on the web browser 8 (Fig. 7), the selecting/sorting section 15a of the data compiling section 15 performs acquiring of article data of the rel*evant month, compiling the acquired article data (Step Sb), forming the article data display page on the web page and sending back to the web browser 8, and then displaying it on the web browser 8 (Step Sli). For example, when the characters 82p of "news" shown in the multiple year calendar table 82 is clicked, the selecting/sorting section 15a acquires data (news articles) related to "00 Industry" of the same month from the article data group acquired from the article database 5 and forms the acquired data into the article data display page 84.

0] Fig. 11 is a view showing an image diagram of the article data display page displayed on the web browser ) 8. As shown in Fig. 11, the article data display page 84 is displayed on the web browser 8 as a result of the clicking of the characters 82p of the "news" shown in the cell 820 of March 2005 in the multiple year calendar table 82 (Fig. 7) . In the article data display page 84, a title of the acquired article data is displayed. When each title is clicked, the body of the relevant article is configured to be displayed on the web browser 8.

1] By displaying an article relating to a specific finance event on the client terminal 7 using the article data display page 84, the user of the client terminal 7 can confirm the article relating to the specific finance event. That is, a finance event is closely related to an activity of a firm or an economic circumstances so that the user can by referring to the article data, grasp effects of the past finance event (for example, it can be predicted that the article data shown in Fig. 11 is an effect of the "stock split" or "bond issuing" shown in February 2005 of the multiple year calendar table 82 (Fig. 7)) and facilitate a prediction of finance events after the time point of the article data.

2] Under the condition where the multiple year calendar table 82 is displayed on the web browser 8 and when a cell of a specific year of the relevant multiple year calendar table 82 is clicked (Step S12), the data compiling section 15 compiles a single year calendar table of the relevant specific year (Step S13), sends the compiled results back to the web browser 8 as a web page and displays it on the web browser 8 (Step S14).

3] More specifically, the selecting/sorting section 15a selects and acquires data displayed on the same row as that of the clicked cell from the data which is acquired by the event acquiring section 14, and give the acquired data to the container section l5b after the acquired data is sorted by each day. The container section 15b forms a table on which cells having a display unit of one day are arranged in a matrix- like manner, arranges the data given from the selecting/sorting section 15a into a relevant cell to complete the single year calendar table, and then sends it back to the web browser 8.

4] Fig. 12 is a view showing an image diagram of a single year calendar table displayed on the web browser 8. As shown in Fig. 12, the event display region 85a of the single year calendar table 85 is formed with twelve display blocks 85a1, 85a2,...85a12 (hereinafter simply referred to as the display block 85a1) and each display block 85a1 is formed with 28 to 31 cells arranged in a matrix-like manner having 5 to 6 rows x 7 columns.

The cell in each display block 85a1 is arranged on the short-time (on a daily basis) coordinate (in the column direction) and the long-time (on a weekly basis) coordinate (in the row direction). One column corresponds to one day of the week (Monday to Sunday), and one row corresponds to one week. In the cell of each display block 85a1, annual (January 2004 to Decenther 2004) finance events of the "00 Industry" are shown as a folder type icon as a result of the processing performed in the above mentioned "case 1" at the Step 513. For example, in the cell 85b of April 16th, an icon 85c showing the "issue resolution date"; in the cell 85d of June 3O, an icon 85e showing "allotment date"; in the cell 85f of August lS', an icon 85g showing "proposed effective date" are displayed respectively. In addition, the icons are shown in other cells as the results of the processing at Step S13.

5] The finance event can be displayed on a yearly, weekly and daily basis on the client terminal 7 according to this single year calendar table 85. Accordingly, the user of the client terminal 7 can get a year-long view of the finance events while the events are displayed by week and by day.

6] In the web browser 8 on which the single year calendar table 85 is displayed, when any icon is clicked, on the web browser 8, a detailed data display page of the finance event of the relevant icon is displayed like Step S8. For example when the icons 85c, 85e and 85g of the single year calendar table 85 are clicked, the detailed data display page 83 shown in Fig. 10 is displayed on the web browser 8.

7] When the single year calendar table 85 is displayed on the web browser 8, and when the cell of a specific month in the relevant single year calendar 85 is clicked (Step Sl5) , the data compiling section 15 compiles the monthly calendar table of the relevant specific month (Step Sl6), sends the compiled results back to the web browser 8 as a web page, and displays it on the web browser 8 (Step S17) [0068] More specifically, the selecting/sorting section 15a selects and acquires data displayed on the same display block 85a1 of the clicked cell from the data acquired by the event acquiring section 14, and gives the acquired data to the container section 15b. The container section 15b forms a table having cells displayed on a daily basis in a matrix-like manner, arranges the data given by the selecting/sorting section 15a into the relevant cells, and completes the monthly

calendar table.

[00691 Fig. 13 is a view showing image diagram of the monthly calendar table displayed on the web browser 8.

In Fig. 13, the event display region 86a of the monthly calendar table 86 has 35 cells (28 or 42 cells in some months) which are displayed 5 rows (4 or 6 rows in some months) x 7 columns inamatrix-like manner. These cells are arranged on a short-time daily base coordinate (in the column direction) and a long-time weekly base coordinate (in the row direction). The column direction represents the day of the week (Monday to Sunday), and the row direction represents the week (Monday to Sunday). In the cells of the event display region 86a, as the results of the processing performed in the above mentioned "case 1" at Step Sl6, finance event of one month (August 2002) of "00 Industry" is shown as character data. For example, in the cell 86b of August 15th, characters "stock: split effective date" indicating "effective date", and in the cell 86c of August 23rd, characters "company's own stock: acquisition" indicating "acquisition of own stocks", are displayed respectively.

[00701 Using this monthly calendar table 86, the finance events can be displayed on the client terminal 7 by week and by day. Therefore, the user of the client terminal 7 can get a short-range view of the finance events which is sorted by week and by day.

1] When any character data showing a finance event in the monthly calendar table 86 displayed on the web browser 8 is clicked, a detailed data display page of the relevant finance event is displayed, like Step SB, on the web browser 8. For example, when characters 86d ---S.' of the "stock split" displayed on the cell 86b of August 15th is clicked, the detailed data display page 83 shown in Fig. 10 is displayed on the web browser 8.

2] As described above, in the analysis supporting system 1A of the embodiment, the analysis supporting apparatus 1 forms the multiple year calendar table 82, single year calendar table 85 and monthly calendar table 86 and displays them on the web browser 8. The data of the finance event is displayed on the cells which constitutes the event display regions 82a, 85a and 86a of these calendar table 82, 85 and 86. The event display regions 82a, 85a (display block 85a1), 86a have the short-time coordinate the one unit of which is the specific time and the long-time coordinate the one unit of which is the whole time included in the short time coordinate (or other words, in the event display region 82a, 12 months of the short time coordinate = one year, in the event display region 86a of the display block 85a1, 7days = iweek) so that each finance event can be displayed as a positional information of the matrix-like shape having a multiple time series as a unit.

[0073) Accordingly, the user of the client terminal 7 can visually and intuitively grasp the generation condition, the contents of the respective finance events, the relevancy between the finance events etc. by overviewing the display on the client terminal 7.

4] More over, in the analysis supporting system 1A of the embodiment, as shown in the above-mentioned "case 1", the event acquiring section 14 of the analysis supporting apparatus 1 acquires the data of finance events of one firm, therefore, the finance events specialized in one firm can be displayed on the terminal using multiple time series as a unit. Such display enables the user of the client terminal 7 to analyze the finance events of one firm easily and derive the accurate results of the analysis.

5] In the analysis supporting system 1A of the embodiment, the event display regions 82a, 85a, 86a are only formed into rectangular regions on the web page but the display regions can be formed on a spread sheet of the spread sheet software and respective cells can be formed as cells of the spread sheet. Therefore, the data of the finance events displayed on each cell can be processed and modified on the client terminal 7 side using the functions of the spread sheet software.

6] In the embodiment mentioned above, the event acquiring section 14 is configured to acquire data sequentially from the finance database server 3 or the article database server 5 at the Step S2 or S3 etc., but data once acquired can be cashed in the analysis supporting apparatus 1 and can be used preferentially for later processings.

7] In the embodiment mentioned above, the analysis supporting apparatus 1 is formed as a server side computer, but can be formed as a client side computer or a stand alone computer.

8] It is noted that the embodiment mentioned above is only an example, but the present invention is not limited to the embodiment mentioned above.

REFERENCE NUMERALS

[00791 1A... Analysis supporting system (Finance event analysis supporting system) 1... Analysis supporting apparatus (Finance event analysis supporting apparatus) 3... Finance database server (Database) 5... Article database server (Database) 7... Client terminal (Terminal) 9... Display section (Display means) 14... Event acquiring section 15... Data compiling section 82a, 85a, 86a... Event display region

Claims (1)

1. [1] A finance event analysis supporting apparatus which displays multiple finance events each of which is an act at a specific time for making a change in funds or capital by an organization, on display means of a terminal, the apparatus comprising: event acquiring means for acquiring data of the finance event recorded in a database; and data compiling means for forming a matrix-like event display region one of row and column directions is taken as a short time coordinate, the one unit of which is the specific time and the other is taken as a long-time coordinate, the one unit of which is the whole time included in the short-time coordinate, arranging the finance event data acquired by the event acquiring means in the event display region, and displaying the data on the display means of the terminal.

   (2] The finance event analysis supporting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the event acquiring means acquires the finance event data of one firm.

   [3] The finance event analysis supporting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein in the event display region, ) the data compiling means forms the short-time coordinate for which one month is used as one unit and the long-time coordinate for which one year is used as one unit.

   [4] The finance event analysis supporting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein in the event displayregion, the data compiling means forms the short-time coordinate for which one day is used as one unit and the long-time coordinate for which one week is used as one unit.

   [5] The finance event display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the data compiling means displays a detailed information of a specific finance event or an information relating to the finance event on the terminal, based on a request from the terminal.

   [6] The finance event display apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the information relating to the finance event is an article described in a newspaper or magazine or news uploaded onto a web server.

   [7] A finance event analysis supporting system which comprises: a finance event acquiring apparatus according to claim 1; and at least one database selected from the group consisting of a database in which data of a finance event which is an act at a specific time for making a change in funds or capital by an organization is recorded and a database in which an information relating to the finance event is recorded.

   [8] The finance event analysis supporting system according to claim 7, wherein the information relating to the finance event is an article in a newspaper or magazine or news uploaded onto a web server.

   (9] A program for making a computer function as a finance event analysis supporting apparatus according to claim 1.