Patent ID: 7617111

Claim:
A method for processing gasoline price data by a computer coupled to a communication network, the method comprising the computer implemented steps of: obtaining, via the communication network, gasoline purchase transaction data from at least one consumer credit agency, said gasoline purchase transaction data corresponding to a plurality of consumer credit purchases of gasoline made by a plurality of consumers, each said consumer credit purchase being from an identifiable location, each said consumer credit purchase including a price charged per volume for the gasoline; calculating geographic-specific gasoline price statistical information from the obtained gasoline purchase transaction data as a function of the identifiable location and the price charged per volume for the gasoline in the consumer credit purchases made by the plurality of consumers; obtaining a user request for gasoline price data for a selected geographic region, wherein said user request indicates the selected geographic region; generating a display including calculated gasoline price statistical information specific to the selected geographic region, wherein the identifiable location of the displayed gasoline price statistical information corresponds to the selected geographic region; and transmitting the generated display to the user.