Trust-Based Stock Option Management System
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional stock option systems face challenges in ensuring fairness and convenience in granting stock acquisition rights, particularly due to varying exercise prices and the need for significant funding and complex contract arrangements, which can lead to unfairness and difficulties in implementing trust-type stock options.
Innovation Solution
An information processing device that manages stock acquisition rights as a trust, allowing an issuing company to allocate these rights based on employment and evaluation data, without requiring payment from the company, and calculates tax obligations, enabling fair and convenient distribution to beneficiaries, including employees and external collaborators, with the trust being subject to corporation taxation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If trust-type stock options are introduced with owner manager or stockholder funding, then fairness in stock acquisition rights is improved, but device complexity and ease of operation worsen due to three-party contracts and identification confirmation requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the complex three-party contract arrangement and identification confirmation procedures from the stock option granting process. By using a simplified trust framework where the issuing company directly designates beneficiaries without requiring separate trustee identification confirmations, the system maintains fairness while reducing contractual complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the stock option system into distinct modules: the issuing company sets stock acquisition rights, designates beneficiaries based on employment evaluation, and the system automatically manages distribution. This segmentation eliminates the need for complex three-party contracts while maintaining fair allocation through automated beneficiary designation based on contribution metrics.
2Reliability
If owner manager or stockholders contribute funds for trust-type stock options, then fairness is improved, but ease of operation worsens when parties are absent or difficult to identify
Solution Approach 1:
The issuing company performs self-service by directly designating beneficiaries based on its own employment and evaluation data without requiring external trustee identification or complex confirmation procedures. The system automatically processes beneficiary designation using the company's internal data, eliminating operational difficulties when external parties are absent or hard to identify.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal stock option management system that can handle various funding scenarios (owner manager funding, stockholder funding, or company funding) through a single standardized process. The system universally accepts beneficiary designation based on employment evaluation regardless of the funding source, simplifying operations across different implementation contexts.
3Adaptability or versatility
If conventional stock option systems are used with varying exercise prices, then adaptability to different issuance timings is improved, but fairness worsens due to value differences between early and later grantees
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies equipotentiality by establishing a unified reference point for stock acquisition rights based on the issuing company's stock price at the time of beneficiary designation. All beneficiaries, regardless of when they are designated, are evaluated against the same company stock price基准, ensuring fair comparison and allocation while maintaining adaptability to different issuance timings through automated price reference updates.
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AI summary
The convenience of management of stock acquisition rights utilizing trust is improved. An information processing device provided with a control unit, wherein the control unit is configured to: accept information regarding stock acquisition rights set by an issuing company as a trust and information regarding the trust of the stock acquisition rights, regardless of whether the issuing company is listed or unlisted; accept information regarding employment and evaluation of officers, employees, external collaborators, and the like, the employment and evaluation being performed by the issuing company as needed; execute distribution processing of the stock acquisition rights at a beneficiary designation time set as the trust, regardless of whether the issuing company is listed or unlisted; and obtain a number allocated to each of a plurality of beneficiaries based on the information regarding employment and evaluation of officers, employees, external collaborators, and the like, wherein the trust is a trust subject to corporation taxation, the issuing company is a setter of the trust, each of the plurality of beneficiaries is one of officers and employees of the issuing company, or a subsidiary company or an associate company of the issuing company, external collaborators, and trustees of a different trust, and the trust is set by the trust of money or stock acquisition rights by the issuing company, and no payment to the issuing company is required upon issuance of the stock acquisition rights entrusted to the trustee.