Patent ID: 7257536

Claim:
A system for conducting a transaction between a person and a remote service, comprising: an electronic device operable by said person, comprising: a housing; a microphone for recording audio; a request input accessible to said person on said housing; a wireless modem circuit integral to said housing for communicating with a network; a processor programmed to include: a sampling task continuously directing recording of the audio on a first-in-first-out (FIFO) basis, providing a continually updated fixed interval of audio recording; a request handling task ascertaining a readiness state for a purchase request by interacting with said sampling task in response to activation of said request input, said request handling task moving sampling data into a transaction queue to transmit a consumer request; and a buy task continuously awaiting creation of a transaction queue record and, finding said record, initiating a remote connection to said processor host service and creating a communication record including request data and said recorded signal sample; and said remote service at a location remote from said person comprising: a detector detecting said request; a matcher matching said content to said deliverable to identify said deliverable in response to said request; and a deliverable controller controlling delivery of said deliverable to said person.