Patent ID: 7848962

Claim:
A method for enabling a user of a portable computing device to locate and select one or more goods or services within a geographic area from a list of goods or services, comprising the steps of: communicating the list of goods or services to a computer system including information about a plurality of goods or services within the geographic area, availability information about the one or more goods or services among the plurality of goods or services, and physical location information about the one or more goods or services among the plurality goods or services available within the geographic area; receiving a list of available goods or services on the portable computing device from the computer system based on a comparison of the list of goods or services against the availability information; displaying a first location indicator on the portable computing device for an available good or service from the list of available goods or services; receiving a status for the available good or service; and displaying a next location indicator on the portable computer device for one or more next available goods or services from the list of available goods or services after receiving a status for one or more prior available goods or services on the list of available goods or services.