Patent ID: 8595193

Claim:
A method comprising: capturing purchase-related information, associated with a prospective purchase, using a barcode reader at a mobile communication device associated with a user; determining, by the mobile communication device and based on the captured purchase-related information, user-defined purchase-related parameters associated with the prospective purchase; providing aggregate purchase-related information associated with multiple types of previous purchases; ordering, with respect to a type of the multiple types of previous purchases that corresponds to the prospective purchase, the aggregate purchase-related information based on pricing-related information indicative of a number of different prices associated with at least one of the previous purchases; performing, at the mobile communication device, a comparison of at least two different types of the user-defined purchase-related parameters associated with the prospective purchase to the pricing-related information, corresponding to the at least two different types of the user-defined purchase-related parameters, associated with the at least one previous purchase; and presenting, at the mobile communication device, results of the comparison.