US 11,854,082 B1
Blockchain instrument for transferable equity
Thomas Marshall Gordon, III, Raleigh, NC (US)
Assigned to EQUITY SHIFT, INC., Raleigh, NC (US)
Filed by Equity Shift, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US)
Filed on Apr. 5, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/131,179.
Application 18/131,179 is a continuation of application No. 17/728,464, filed on Apr. 25, 2022, granted, now 11,625,783.
Application 17/728,464 is a continuation in part of application No. 17/727,272, filed on Apr. 22, 2022, granted, now 11,443,379, issued on Sep. 13, 2022.
Application 17/727,272 is a continuation of application No. 17/514,746, filed on Oct. 29, 2021, granted, now 11,315,185, issued on Apr. 26, 2022.
Application 17/514,746 is a continuation of application No. 16/918,368, filed on Jul. 1, 2020, granted, now 11,164,254, issued on Nov. 2, 2021.
Application 16/918,368 is a continuation in part of application No. 16/910,936, filed on Jun. 24, 2020, granted, now 11,532,047, issued on Dec. 20, 2022.
Application 16/910,936 is a continuation of application No. 16/518,329, filed on Jul. 22, 2019, granted, now 10,699,340, issued on Jun. 30, 2020.
Application 16/518,329 is a continuation in part of application No. 16/271,447, filed on Feb. 8, 2019, granted, now 10,713,722, issued on Jul. 14, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/630,559, filed on Feb. 14, 2018.
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06Q 40/04 (2012.01); G06Q 20/06 (2012.01); H04L 9/06 (2006.01); G06Q 20/36 (2012.01); G06Q 20/38 (2012.01)
CPC G06Q 40/04 (2013.01) [G06Q 20/0658 (2013.01); G06Q 20/3678 (2013.01); G06Q 20/389 (2013.01); H04L 9/0637 (2013.01); H04L 9/0643 (2013.01); G06Q 2220/00 (2013.01)] 30 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for performing transactions of tokenized securities, comprising:
a platform including a server in network-based communication with a plurality of user devices;
wherein the platform records transactions of tokenized securities from one or more issuing entities on an immutable ledger;
wherein the platform receives a buy offer from a user device associated with a buying entity, wherein the buy offer includes a designated number of tokenized securities from a designated issuing entity, one or more designated classes of tokenized securities, and/or a price for each of the tokenized securities;
wherein the platform automatically notifies each holder of one or more tokenized securities from the designated issuing entity regarding the buy offer;
wherein the platform receives a response from one or more holders of one or more tokenized securities from the designated issuing entity, the response including a number of tokenized securities each holder is willing to sell at one or more price points;
wherein the platform transmits a return offer to the buying entity based on the response from the one or more holders of one or more tokenized securities from the designated issuing entity;
wherein the platform provides document management for each buy offer, wherein the platform records each edit made to at least one document associated with the buy offer and a user account which made each edit to the immutable ledger, and wherein the platform generates a new version of the at least one document each time a different user account edits the at least one document;
wherein the platform automatically transmits funds from a first financial account associated with the buying entity to a second financial account associated with the one or more holders of one or more tokenized securities from the designated issuing entity;
wherein the platform automatically records ownership for the buying entity of one or more tokenized securities associated with the designated issuing entity corresponding to the amount of transmitted funds from the first financial account associated with the buying entity; and
wherein the one or more tokenized securities recorded for the buying entity is associated with one or more different bundles of rights compared with the one or more tokenized securities sold according to the return offer by the one or more holders of the one or more tokenized securities from the designated issuing entity.