Patent ID: 7376584

Claim:
A system configured to facilitate ordering of goods or services by a customer from a vendor having multiple vendor locations while the customer is on travel, the system comprising: one or more base stations configured to receive an abbreviated dialing sequence that corresponds to an order from a mobile terminal used by the customer, both the order being initiated at a remote location by the customer and preparation of the order being initiated at one of the vendor locations by the vendor before the customer arrives at the one of the vendor locations, to reduce wait time of the customer by time-shifting preparation of the order by the vendor to coincide with transit time of the customer; and a processing center coupled between the one or more base stations and the vendor and configured to receive the abbreviated dialing sequence, determine from the remote location the one of the multiple vendor locations to which to transmit customer information, and bill a wireless account of the customer for a monetary amount of the order; wherein the goods or services are selected from the group of vendors consisting of restaurants, pharmacies, grocery stores, toll booths, convenience stores and gas stations which allows the goods or services to be picked-up by the customer and the travel to continue while utilizing the goods or services.