Methods and apparatus which deal with the management of risk relating to specified, yet unknown, future events. ‘Sponsor’ stakeholders specify a particular product relating to an event or phenomenon for which there is a range of possible future outcomes. ‘Ordering’ stakeholders then offer contracts...http://www.google.com.au/patents/US8050996?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US8050996 - Systems relating to the establishment of a contractual obligation