Patent ID: 7797193

Claim:
A system for facilitating the purchase of a plurality of telecommunication services, the system comprising: a server in communication with a plurality of buyer terminals and a plurality of seller terminals, wherein said server performs a method stored in a storage medium and executed by one or more processors, comprising: storing in memory information associated with one or more of a plurality of telecommunication service providers, the information being used to determine one or more system generated responses to a request to purchase at least one of the plurality of telecommunication service, each of the one or more system generated responses being associated with at least one of the plurality of telecommunication service providers and each of the one or more system generated responses being further associated with a related cost for the at least one of the plurality of telecommunication service and an indication associated with the seller controlled geographic footprint wherein the at least one of the plurality of telecommunication service is available; establishing a session over a network for considering the purchase of the at least one of the plurality of telecommunication service; receiving the request at a computer on the network, wherein the request is received after the information associated with one or more of a plurality of telecommunication service providers is stored; determining the at least one system generated response in response to the received request based at least upon the indication associated with the seller controlled geographical footprint; and preventing a requester from accepting the identified system generated response to the received request after the session is terminated.