Method and System for Unified Presentation of Event Booking Systems

• US 20090101710A1
• Filed: 12/31/2008
• Published: 04/23/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Deem, Incorporated (Jack Taylor Family Voting Trust U A D 4 14 99)
• Original Assignee: Rearden Commerce Inc
• Inventors: Chakravarthy, Sriram
• Granted Patent: US 7,806,328 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 235/382
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/42 for ticket printing or like apparatus , e.g. apparatus for dispensing of printed paper tickets or payment cards

Abstract

In one embodiment, a system, that may be executed as a method, is provided for managing the booking of event tickets inside a single system, regardless of the source of the tickets and how the system of each ticket provider actually works.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method comprising:

assigning, via a computing device, a set of vendors to a unified ID for an event, the unified ID representing a set of unique IDs of the vendors;

presenting, via the computing device, for selection a representation corresponding to the unified ID;

in response to the representation of the unified ID being selected, presenting, via the computing device, an offer to select a ticket from a set of tickets for an event offered by the set of vendors;

providing, via the computing device, a local structure;

parsing, via the computing device, the set of vendors; and

providing, via the computing device, navigation through event categories.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising identifying a second set of vendors offering tickets to a second event.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising assigning to the second set of vendors a second unified ID, the second set of vendors offering tickets to the second event.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

presenting for selection a representation corresponding to the second unified ID; and

in response to the representation of the second unified ID being selected, presenting an offer to select a ticket from a set of tickets for the second event, offered by the second set of vendors.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising assigning a unified ID for a pre-identified category, and assigning to the unified ID for the pre-identified category, separate vendors offering tickets for events within the category.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the local structure includes the event categories and respective IDs.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising parsing the local structure.

8. A machine-readable medium having stored thereon a set of instructions which when executed on a computer system cause the computer system to perform a method, the method comprising:

assigning a set of vendors to a unified ID for an event, the unified ID representing a set of unique IDs of the vendors;

presenting for selection a representation corresponding to the unified ID;

in response to the representation of the unified ID being selected, presenting an offer to select a ticket from a set of tickets for an event offered by the set of vendors;

providing a local structure;

parsing the set of vendors; and

providing navigation through event categories.

9. The machine-readable medium of claim 8, further comprising identifying a second set of vendors offering tickets to a second event.

10. The machine-readable medium of claim 9, further comprising assigning to the second set of vendors a second unified ID, the second set of vendors offering tickets to the second event.

11. The machine-readable medium of claim 10, further comprising:

presenting for selection a representation corresponding to the second unified ID; and

in response to the representation of the second unified ID being selected, presenting an offer to select a ticket from a set of tickets for the second event, offered by the second set of vendors.

12. The machine-readable medium of claim 11, further comprising assigning a unified ID for a pre-identified category, and assigning to the unified ID for the pre-identified category, separate vendors offering tickets for events within the category.

13. The machine-readable medium of claim 8, wherein the local structure includes the event categories and respective IDs.

14. The machine-readable medium of claim 8, further comprising parsing the local structure.

15. A computer system comprising:

at least one server configured to;

assign a set of vendors to a unified ID for an event, the unified ID representing a set of unique IDs of the vendors;

present for selection a representation corresponding to the unified ID;

in response to the representation of the unified ID being selected, present an offer to select a ticket from a set of tickets for an event offered by the set of vendors;

provide a local structure;

parse the set of vendors; and

provide navigation through event categories.

16. The computer system of claim 15, wherein the at least one server identifies a second set of vendors offering tickets to a second event.

17. The computer system of claim 16, wherein the at least one server assigns to the second set of vendors a second unified ID, the second set of vendors offering tickets to the second event.

18. The computer system of claim 17, wherein the at least one server:

presents for selection a representation corresponding to the second unified ID; and

in response to the representation of the second unified ID being selected, presents an offer to select a ticket from a set of tickets for the second event, offered by the second set of vendors.

19. The computer system of claim 18, wherein the at least one server assigns a unified ID for a pre-identified category, and assigns to the unified ID for the pre-identified category, separate vendors offering tickets for events within the category.

20. The computer system of claim 15, wherein the local structure includes the event categories and respective IDs.