Patent ID: 7240036

Claim:
A method for facilitating a wireless transaction, comprising: providing a transaction apparatus having a transaction management system and a transaction fulfillment system located in remote locations and in communication with each other, the transaction apparatus having means for communicating a transaction code representative of a requested transaction to a wireless communication device apart from the transaction apparatus for dispaly on a display of the wireless device; receiving, by the transaction management system, a transaction request from a transaction requester for a commerical item; verifying an identity of the transaction requester by authenticating a spoken authentication code including comparing the spoken authentication code to an authentic voice print of an authorized user of the wireless communication device; communicating, by the transaction apparatus, a first transaction code to the wireless communication device; displaying the first transaction code on a visual display of the wireless communication device; optically scanning, by the transaction fulfillment system, the first transaction code from the visual display; and receiving, by the transaction management system from the transaction fulfillment system, a decoded representation of the first transaction code in response to optically scanning the first transaction code, and correlating the decoded transaction code to a transaction fulfillment event for the commercial item.