The company went belly up about 4 years ago, and the product was an English product (although it was sold in the US, which i think makes it valid for patents). I have the source code and a copy of the executable for the product but I am unable to run it, need a DLL for a 3rd party add-in (IMW3232D40.DLL). I have tinkered around with rewriting in VS2008, and removing the library, but there are a lot of compile time errors, and it uses the Jet DB engine so all the DB code needs to be redone. This is why I don't want to give the product name, eventually I would like to resurrect it as an open source portfolio manager, but I am not sure who holds the copyright (I wrote at least 90% of the code, but I was employed to do this, so I know I don't)

I know we had a large manual that described this and all the other functionality in the app, but unfortunately, i don't have a copy. Shame really, would be fun to see what happened

This line is from a header file for a charting object we wrote in a windows desktop app written in MFC // Inception - 2.13.96

It does exactly what is described in the patent, chart with shields on it that you could click to link to corporate events and news stories, a smaller version of the chart with sliders to allow you to set the date range, and so on. Of course, the product is no longer sold, so that properly means you can reinvent the wheel where software is concerned

Stupid patents