Patent ID: 7379904

Claim:
A method for obtaining an offer for a sale of a desired product or service using electronic devices, comprising: identifying the desired product or service for a single purchase transaction; iteratively transmitting a first signal including a first data message using a mobile transceiver device, the first data message having information relating to the desired product or service, the first signal being transmitted to product or service providers within a broadcast range of the mobile transceiver device regardless of identities of the product or service providers and abilities of the product or service providers to provide the desired product or service; receiving the first signal having the first data message and determining whether at least one of the product or service providers has the desired product or service available for sale; wherein iteratively transmitting the first signal further comprises cycling through multiple digital communication protocols to iteratively transmit the first signal; transmitting a second signal including a second data message to the mobile transceiver device, the second data message containing an offer to sell the desired product or service; receiving a plurality of additional offers to sell the desired product or service from a plurality of vendors prior to a completion of the single purchase transaction; organizing the offer to sell the desired product or service and the plurality of additional offers to sell the desired product or service on a screen of the mobile transceiver device prior to a completion of the single purchase transaction; and deleting a subset of the offer to sell the desired product or service and the plurality of additional offers to sell the desired product or service in response to the subset failing to meet a desired criterion prior to a completion of the single purchase transaction.