Computer hardware and recorded computer software for providing real-time financial market data that is normalized, enriched, filtered, and distributed, historical financial market data, real- time trading signals, visibility and control over the access and usage of financial market data within a trading platform, and visibility into the real-time status of market data infrastructure and data quality, all of the foregoing provided to customers and electronic trading platforms; recorded and downloadable computer programs and computer software for electronically trading securities; recorded and downloadable computer software, namely, application programming interface (API), framework and supporting libraries that provide support for interpreting market data messages and allow applications to consume the data through domain specific interfaces and classes for trading constructs, including trades, quotes, security status, fundamental data, order imbalance information, order books, and options chains; recorded and downloadable computer software for monitoring, analyzing, managing, and creating reports on usage of vendor provided data services and for controlling user and application access to vendor provided data services for use in the financial and securities fields; Computer software, namely, application programming interface (API) for use in middleware software development and/or computer software used by financial institutions in connection with securities, commodities, futures, financial instruments, financial markets, or financial exchanges; computer software tools and utilities, namely, protocol bridging utility for bridging data models and symbology differences between different market data implementations; software for analyzing suspicious financial and market data; computer utility programs for comparing throughput and latency of market data networks; computer hardware for distributing market data to independent market data infrastructures and remote offices.

Providing real-time financial market data information that is normalized, enriched, filtered, and distributed, all to multiple consumers; providing historical financial market data information and real-time trading signals information being a type of financial information; and providing data in the field of financial market information; trading and quotation on a stock, commodity, futures, and/or derivative exchange, namely, stock commodity, futures, and derivative brokerage and stock, commodity, futures, and derivative exchange quotation and listing services; stock, commodity, futures, and derivative exchange information services and providing financial information; providing and disseminating financial information regarding price quotations for stocks, bonds, mutual funds, commodities, and other financial instruments; provision of on-line information regarding stocks, commodities, future and options; providing an on-line computer database in the field of stock/securities market information; organization of on-line stock exchanges for the benefit of the trade of stocks and other financial securities; providing statistical information in the field of stocks, bonds, and other financial instruments; providing information relating to securities trading; providing financial, securities, stock exchange, trade and quote, index value and other market information.