17 also recites “a means for selecting an arbitrator from an arbitrator database.” These claims, under the broadest reasonable interpretation, could require the use of a computer as part of Comiskey’s arbitration system. See Alan Freedman, The Computer Glossary 268 (8th ed.1998) (defining module as “[a] self-contained hardware or software component that interacts with a larger system”); id. at 90 (defining database as “any electronically-stored collection of data”). Similarly, even though Comiskey did not separately argu ble a method for determining whether long-distance calls were being made between long-distance carriers or within a single long-distance carrier that used a mathematical algorithm and “require[d] the use of switches and computers”); State Street Bank, 149 F.3d at 1371 (<HOLDING>). While the mere use of the machine to collect
holding patentable a system that allows an administrator to monitor and record the financial information flow and make all calculations necessary for maintaining a partner fund financial services configuration where a computer or equivalent device was a virtual necessity to perform the task holding that the definition of covered business method patent is not limited to products and services of only the financial industry or to patents owned by or directly affecting the activities of financial institutions holding that access to financial information was reasonably related to a defendants narcotics convictions because financial gain motivated the underlying crimes holding that it is wrong to assume a financial conflict of interest from the fact that the plan administrator is also the insurer recognizing the evolving nature of financial services in acknowledging that litigants may be able to demonstrate that stock brokerage firms are financial institutions under idahos probate code