Patent ID: 9472066
Filing Date: 2016-10-18
CPC Classification: G06Q,G07F

Claim Text:
1. A terminal for placing order with plural vendors, comprising: a user interface for displaying information to and receiving inputs from a user; storage for maintaining a transaction record based on vendor information and user inputs and reflecting selections from one or more of the plurality of vendors; a transaction information database storing vendor information including a selection view for each of the plural vendors; and a processor for retrieving stored vendor information, creating a user display based on stored vendor information, the user display including a vendor icon for each of the plural vendors and managing a transaction associated with one or more orders, the processor opening a transaction record for an order upon initiation of an order by a user and to display a selection menu for each vendor upon a user's selection of that vendor, the processor being operative to update the transaction record based on user selections and to present successive displays based on user selections, the processor being further operative to direct order information to each vendor selected for an order for fulfillment of the order, wherein the user interface comprises a touch screen display, a user initiates an order by dragging an order icon representing an order to a desired area on the touch screen display, and the user selects one or more vendors from which selections are to be made by moving a vendor icon representing each of the vendors to the order icon, wherein the touch screen display responds to multiple simultaneous touches.