METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ILLUSTRATING WHERE A TICKET IS LOCATED IN AN EVENT VENUE
First Claim
1. A method of illustrating locations of available tickets in an event venue, comprising:
- presenting, by a web browser of a client computing device, a filter module for allowing a user to perform a search of tickets listed for sale by a ticket service hosted by a web site;
accepting, at the filter module, event criteria for at least one ticket and at least one event;
accepting, at the filter module, price criteria for the at least one ticket and the at least one event;
sending the request for filtering tickets by criteria to the ticket service;
receiving, from the ticket service, data representing a filtered ticket set meeting the event criteria and the price criteria from the ticket service;
displaying a ticket listing corresponding to tickets of the filtered ticket set located in a plurality of sections of an event venue;
displaying, by the web browser, an interactive graphics-based event venue map for the event venue illustrating locations of sections having tickets of the filtered ticket set;
accepting, at the interactive graphics-based event venue map, a particular section of interest in response to the user selecting the particular section from the interactive graphics-based event venue map;
accepting, at the interactive graphics-based event venue map, a particular section of interest; and
displaying ticket information in a web browsing language corresponding to the tickets of the filtered ticket set located in the particular section of interest as an overlay on the particular section of interest on the interactive graphics-based event venue map.
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Abstract
A system and method of illustrating where at least one ticket is located in an event venue, comprising: accepting event criteria for at least one ticket and at least one event; accepting price criteria for the at least one ticket and the at least one event; displaying an interactive graphics-based event venue map illustrating a location of all sections at a venue with at least one ticket meeting the event criteria and price criteria; accepting section selection criteria, at least one section being selected from the interactive graphics-based event venue map; displaying ticket information in a web browsing language corresponding to the section selection criteria, the displayed ticket information in the web browsing language being able to be utilized to drill down to a specific ticket, causing a location of the specific ticket to be displayed in the interactive graphics-based event venue map; and enabling a capability to utilize the interactive graphics-based event venue map to choose a section of interest, causing corresponding ticket information to be displayed in the web browsing language.
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20 Claims
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1. A method of illustrating locations of available tickets in an event venue, comprising:
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presenting, by a web browser of a client computing device, a filter module for allowing a user to perform a search of tickets listed for sale by a ticket service hosted by a web site; accepting, at the filter module, event criteria for at least one ticket and at least one event; accepting, at the filter module, price criteria for the at least one ticket and the at least one event; sending the request for filtering tickets by criteria to the ticket service; receiving, from the ticket service, data representing a filtered ticket set meeting the event criteria and the price criteria from the ticket service; displaying a ticket listing corresponding to tickets of the filtered ticket set located in a plurality of sections of an event venue; displaying, by the web browser, an interactive graphics-based event venue map for the event venue illustrating locations of sections having tickets of the filtered ticket set; accepting, at the interactive graphics-based event venue map, a particular section of interest in response to the user selecting the particular section from the interactive graphics-based event venue map; accepting, at the interactive graphics-based event venue map, a particular section of interest; and displaying ticket information in a web browsing language corresponding to the tickets of the filtered ticket set located in the particular section of interest as an overlay on the particular section of interest on the interactive graphics-based event venue map. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A system residing on a client computing device comprising computer code that, when executed by the client computing device, causes the client computing device to perform a method for illustrating locations of available tickets in an event venue, the method comprising:
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presenting, by a web browser, a filter module for allowing a user to perform a search of tickets listed for sale by a ticket service hosted by a web site; accepting, at the filter module, event criteria for at least one ticket and at least one event; accepting, at the filter module, price criteria for the at least one ticket and the at least one event; sending the request for filtering tickets by criteria to the ticket service; receiving, from the ticket service, data representing a filtered ticket set meeting the event criteria and the price criteria from the ticket service; displaying a ticket listing corresponding to tickets of the filtered ticket set located in a plurality of sections of an event venue; displaying, by the web browser, an interactive graphics-based event venue map for the event venue illustrating locations of sections having tickets of the filtered ticket set; accepting, at the interactive graphics-based event venue map, a particular section of interest in response to the user selecting the particular section from the interactive graphics-based event venue map; accepting, at the interactive graphics-based event venue map, a particular section of interest; and displaying ticket information in a web browsing language corresponding to the tickets of the filtered ticket set located in the particular section of interest as an overlay on the particular section of interest on the interactive graphics-based event venue map. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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