Patent ID: 7039389

Claim:
A fuel dispensing system, comprising: a plurality of fuel dispensers, each of said plurality of fuel dispensers capable of conducting a fueling transaction with a customer having a cellular telephone, each of said plurality of fuel dispensers comprising: i) a customer interface for communicating with the customer; and ii) a site communications interface for communicating with a point-of-sale system; and iii) a local communications interface for transmitting site information from said point-of-sale system to said cellular telephone via a wireless signal; said cellular telephone adapted to transmit said site information and additional customer information to an authorization network; and said point-of-sale system adapted to selectively enable one of said plurality of fuel dispensers to conduct said fueling transaction and determine a transaction cost associated with said fueling transaction, and said point-of-sale system adapted to receive authorization information from said authorization network and to selectively enable one of said plurality of fuel dispensers based on said authorization information.