Universal Ticketing and Payment System
First Claim
1. Method of providing authorization for a purchaser to enter multiple events at different locations and times includingproviding a computer system that can be remotely accessed by the purchaser;
- establishing in the computer system an account uniquely associated with the said purchaser;
allowing the purchaser to purchase authorization to enter a particular event using the computer system and recording information of the purchase in the system in association with the purchaser'"'"'s account;
providing the purchaser with data identifying the purchaser'"'"'s account in the system in a form that the purchaser can take to the event embodied in a pass;
receiving at the computer system information identifying the account record obtained by reading the pass at the event;
interrogating the system to find out whether entry to the event has been purchased; and
providing a signal to the event location indicative of whether entry should be allowed.
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Abstract
A remotely-accessible computer system allows a purchase to establish an account and then purchase admission to live events or venues. The system provides the purchaser with a pass containing data identifying the account established for the purchaser which account contains information about purchased admissions. The pass can be used to gain access multiple events. The purchaser presents the pass at the entrance to the event and a reader reads the identification data and forwards it to the system. The system checks that the purchaser has purchased entry to the particular event and provides a signal to the event indicating whether admission to the event should be allowed or refused.
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21 Claims
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1. Method of providing authorization for a purchaser to enter multiple events at different locations and times including
providing a computer system that can be remotely accessed by the purchaser; -
establishing in the computer system an account uniquely associated with the said purchaser; allowing the purchaser to purchase authorization to enter a particular event using the computer system and recording information of the purchase in the system in association with the purchaser'"'"'s account; providing the purchaser with data identifying the purchaser'"'"'s account in the system in a form that the purchaser can take to the event embodied in a pass; receiving at the computer system information identifying the account record obtained by reading the pass at the event; interrogating the system to find out whether entry to the event has been purchased; and providing a signal to the event location indicative of whether entry should be allowed. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 12, 18, 19)
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7. A system for selling access to multiple events including
a computer system, which can be accessed by users from remote locations using a network; -
a membership function of the computer system that receives personal information about a purchaser and establishes and maintains an account for the purchaser in the system including data identifying the account; a booking function of the computer system which enables a purchaser to purchase access to one or a number of future events; a memory function of the computer system which retains information about purchased access associated with the account of the purchaser; an account data reception function of the computer system adapted to receive data obtained from a pass presented by the user at an event and containing readable data indicative of the account identity of a person seeking access to the event; the computer system operated and arranged to query the purchased access data recorded in the system and associated with the transmitted account identity and to transmit information to the event location indicating whether admission should be allowed or denied. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 20, 21)
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15. A method of obtaining information about the purchasing transactions of an attendee at a live event comprising:
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providing a computer system; establishing in the computer system a plurality of accounts, each one associated with a particular attendee of live events; providing to each attendee a pass containing data identifying the account of that attendee; allowing a purchase of goods or services at the event to be made using the pass and receiving data relating to the purchase at the computer system; storing that data in the computer system in association with the attendee'"'"'s account; analyzing the stored data to obtain information about the attendee'"'"'s purchases at the event. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17)
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