SPATIAL ORGANIZATION AND DISPLAY OF EVENT TICKETING INFORMATION

• US 20080109758A1
• Filed: 10/01/2007
• Published: 05/08/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Zeetix, LLC
• Original Assignee: Zeetix, LLC
• Inventors: Stambaugh, Thomas
• Application Number:
  US11/865,339
• Publication Number:
  US 20080109758A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/835
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance

Abstract

A Zeetix encompasses a collection of information organized around spatial domain, which may be around a geographical location in a real geography or a virtual geography, and all human-made constructs on it. A geographic Zeetix may show store locations for a franchise business, listing locations for a realtor, or police stations for a municipality. Another spatial domain may be a visualization of a specific biological pathway, containing annotation on potential drug targets, signal transduction cascades, disease pathways, biomarkers for diagnostic opportunities, or cellular localization for a metabolic pathway. Zeetix methods and systems enable the organization of information around a specific spatial domain. These methods and systems facilitate managing objects presented in visualization layers of a variety of spatial domains. The methods and systems may include methods and systems for associating an object with one or more spatial domains; presenting the object in a plurality of navigable visualization layers with dimensions that correspond to the dimensions of the spatial domain, the visualization layers having a navigation scheme for navigating within and among the visualization layers, wherein the visualization layers conform to a published application programming interface; assigning the object at least one attribute associated with a virtual property right in at least one spatial domain; and upon a user interaction with the object in the visualization layer, presenting information associated with the virtual property right(s) of the object.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

identifying a plurality of events for which tickets can be purchased;

associating objects with the ticketed events, wherein the objects reference attributes that identify the event;

rendering a spatial domain of plurality of events, the spatial domain containing a plurality of navigable visualization layers with dimensions that correspond to the dimensions of the spatial domain, the visualization layers having a navigation scheme for navigating within and among the visualization layers, wherein the visualization layers conform to a published map application programming interface;

presenting the objects on a map that represents at least one visualization layer of the ticketed events spatial domain;

presenting a visualization tree for selecting the objects to be presented on the map; and

in response to a user interaction with one of the presented objects, accessing at least one of the referenced attributes.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of events include concerts, plays, lectures, speakers, club performances, sporting events, parties, conventions, religious services, and movies.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the referenced attributes include at least one of event time, event date, performer, venue, food services, lodging proximate to the event, an offer to purchase tickets, and transportation to/from the event.

4. A method comprising:

receiving information associated with a spatial domain, wherein the information includes spatial coordinates, objects representing the information, and a visualization layer associated with the spatial domain;

processing the information with a raster processor to provide a geographic representation of the information suitable for presentation through a published map application programming interface; and

in response to a user interaction with the presentation, providing an adjusted geographic representation to the published map application programming interface, wherein the adjusted geographic representation is based on navigation actions derived from the user interaction.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the navigation actions include navigating to a different visualization layer associated with the spatial domain.