Patent ID: 7246084

Claim:
A method for processing electronic orders comprising the computer implemented steps of: receiving, at an intermediary disposed between and separate from a mobile device and a plurality of merchants, first order data for an order and device identification data from the mobile device, wherein the first order data includes data regarding one or more products or services that a user associated with the mobile device desires to purchase and data regarding one of the plurality of merchants from which the user desires to purchase the one or more products or services, yet includes less than a minimum set of data required by the one merchant to completely process the order, and wherein the device identification data identifies the mobile device; storing, at an intermediary, information that specifies the minimum set of data required by at least the one merchant to completely process the order; comparing, by the intermediary, first order data to the minimum set of data required by the one merchant to completely process the order; retrieving, by the intermediary, based upon the comparison and the device identification data, at least one data item that is not included in the first order data, but that is needed to have the minimum set of data required by the one merchant to completely process the order; generating, by the intermediary, based upon the first order data and the at least one data item, second order data that includes the minimum set of data required by the one merchant to completely process the order; and providing the second order data to the one merchant for processing.