Patent ID: 7246149

Claim:
For use in a system comprising a vending management server and a customer-physical-access admission station that performs an admission-gate opening function and includes a wireless interface to communicate with one or more user wireless devices to include a particular user wireless device associated with a particular user, a method of wirelessly selling admissions, the method comprising: wirelessly establishing a position-dependent ecommerce session with the particular user wireless device; engaging in a handshaking sequence that includes wirelessly receiving via the position-dependent ecommerce session from the particular user wireless device a digital customer payment for providing the admission-gate opening function; if the digital customer payment is found to be valid in a testing, generating an admission-grant signal indicating to allow the particular user to pass through an admission gate; evaluating information received via the position-dependent ecommerce session to determine a particular destination beyond the admission gate that corresponds to the particular destination of the particular user; and wirelessly transmitting to the particular user wireless device an indication of a set of directions to help the particular user physically navigate to the particular destination.