Patent ID: 8078506

Claim:
A method for real time mobile commerce transactions comprising: receiving a selected transaction request transmitted from a mobile device to a central server, wherein the selected transaction request comprises an information search request, an information acquisition request, an information comparison request, a price request, a price comparison request, a transaction instruction request, and a transaction execution request, and wherein transmitting the selected transaction request comprises, transmitting using a keyboard, transmitting using audible speech, and transmitting visual data, comprising data in a touch screen enabled display panel format; receiving in the mobile device information from a coupled wireless bar code reader, wherein the information comprises at least one of product identification information, product feature information, and price information, and wherein the wireless bar code reader reads the information from a bar code chosen from a group comprising a bar code on an item in proximity to the wireless bar code reader and a bar code referring to an item not in proximity to the wireless bar code reader, wherein the coupled wireless bar code reader is one of integrated in the mobile device, and collocated with the mobile device; setting up at least one customized search engine table to conduct a search by selecting a parameter of interest from the table, wherein the search engine table is set up by a user of the mobile device; querying at least one server regarding the selected transaction request in response to receiving the selected transaction request wherein the server uses a lookup table and a stored user profile to set an environment specific to the user for the selected transaction request; receiving a response to the query from the at least one server; processing the received response, including formatting the received response; transmitting the processed response to the mobile device, such that the mobile device receives the response in one of a plurality of formats comprising an audible data format, and a visual data format including a touch screen enabled display panel format; and executing a transaction in response to a received transaction execution request, including communicating with the at least one server using data received from the mobile device, and further comprising automatic payment using the wireless bar code reader device information, automatically entering an item in an inventory database as sold, enabling the item to be removed from a store, wherein the transaction execution request can be transmitted from a remote position and local position relative to the store.