MOBILE PLATFORM FOR EVENT REGISTRATION

• US 20130124398A1
• Filed: 11/15/2011
• Published: 05/16/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/15/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: The Active Network Incorporated (Cvent Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: The Active Network Incorporated (Cvent Incorporated)
• Inventors: CARROLL, STEVEN, DE TAGYOS, PETER, SCHLESSER, JOSH
• Granted Patent: US 8,688,571 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/39
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/00 Payment architectures, schemes or protocols apparatus for performing or posting payment transactions G07F7/08, G07F19/00; electronic cash registers G07G1/12
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/40 Authorisation, e.g. identification of payer or payee, verification of customer or shop credentials; Review and approval of payers, e.g. check credit lines or negative lists
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/00 Finance; Insurance; Tax strategies; Processing of corporate or income taxes
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 90/00 Systems or methods specially adapted for administrative, commercial, financial, managerial or supervisory purposes, not involving significant data processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass

Abstract

Method and systems of registering participants for an event at an event site are disclosed. Identification data specific to a participant encoded on a first token object is read with a mobile computing device. A query is generated from the mobile computing device to a remote event registration system for prior registration data based upon at least a subset of the received identification data. The prior registration data is received on the mobile computing device. A first subset of the prior registration data is transmitted to a local event registration system, and a payment success indicator is received upon successful payment processing. Registrant identification data is generated by the local event registration system in response to recording the first subset of the prior registration data and the payment success indicator.

Claims

1. A method of registering participants for an event at an event site, the method comprising:

reading identification data specific to a participant encoded on a first token object therefrom with a mobile computing device including an integrated token reading device;

generating a query from the mobile computing device to a remote event registration system for prior registration data based upon at least a subset of the received identification data;

receiving the prior registration data on the mobile computing device;

transmitting a first subset of the prior registration data to a local event registration system;

receiving a payment success indicator; and

receiving registrant identification data generated by the local event registration system following the recordation of the first subset of the prior registration data and the payment success indicator thereon.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first token object includes payment data specific to the participant encoded thereon.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising the steps:

reading the payment data from the first token object on the mobile computing device with the integrated token reading device;

generating a payment request with the payment data to a remote payment processing system;

wherein the payment success indicator is received following an affirmative completion of the payment request.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein:

the first token object is a payment card having a magnetic strip, the payment data and the identification data being magnetically encoded thereon;

the integrated token reading device is a magnetic strip reader.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the first token object is selected from a group consisting of:

a credit card, a debit card, and a stored value card.

6. The method of claim 2, wherein:

the first token object is a card including a bar code representative of an identifier associated to the identification data and the payment data.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the integrated token reading device is an imaging sensor for capturing an image of the bar code.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the integrated token reading device is a laser scanner for reading the identifier represented by the bar code.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the prior registration data includes payment data corresponding to the received identification data read from the first token object.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising the step of:

generating a payment request with the payment data to a remote payment processing system;

wherein the payment success indicator is received following an affirmative completion of the payment request.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the first token object is an identification card.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising the steps of:

reading payment data from a second token object with the integrated token reading device of the mobile computing device; and

generating a payment request including the payment data to a remote payment processing system;

wherein the payment success indicator is received following an affirmative completion of the payment request.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein:

the second token object is a payment card having a magnetic strip, the payment data being magnetically encoded thereon;

the integrated token reading device is a magnetic strip reader.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the second token object is selected from a group consisting of:

a credit card, a debit card, and a stored value card.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein a second subset of the received prior registration data includes payment data.

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

generating a payment request with the payment data to a remote payment processing system;

wherein the payment success indicator is received following an affirmative completion of the payment request.

17. The method of claim 1, wherein the second subset of the received prior registration data is encrypted.

18. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

displaying the registrant identification data on the mobile computing device.

19. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

assigning an arbitrary participant identification number from the mobile computing device; and

transmitting the participant identification number to the local event registration system for storage thereon in linked relationship to the registrant identification data.

20. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

displaying on the mobile computing device in editable fields of a form a subset of the received prior registration data.

21. A system for on-site registration of participants at an event, the system comprising:

a participant registrar system for management of the event;

a past participant database including prior registration data of at least one of the participants;

a mobile computing device in communication with a payment processing system, the participant registrar system, and the past participant database, the mobile computing device including;

a participant token reader for collecting identification data specific to the participant encoded on a first token object therefrom;

a registration interface module for querying the past participant database with the inputted identification data to retrieve corresponding prior registration data of the participant for transfer to the participant registrar system;

a participant registrar module for transferring the retrieved prior registration data of the participant to the participant registrar system; and

a payment module linkable to the payment processing system, a payment confirmation being received by the payment module from the payment processing system upon successful payment processing.

22. The system of claim 21, wherein:

the participant token is a card including a magnetic strip with the identification data encoded thereon; and

the participant token reader is a magnetic strip reader.

23. The system of claim 22, wherein the first token object is selected from a group consisting of:

an identification card, a credit card, a debit card, and a stored value card.

24. The system of claim 21, wherein the payment module transmits payment data derived from the prior registration data to the payment processing system.

25. The system of claim 21, wherein the payment module transmits payment data received from the first token object.

26. An article of manufacture comprising a program storage medium readable by a data processing apparatus, the medium tangibly embodying one or more programs of instructions executable by the data processing apparatus to perform a method of registering participants for an event at an event site, the method comprising:

reading identification data specific to a participant encoded on a first token object therefrom with a mobile computing device including an integrated token reading device;

generating a query from the mobile computing device to the remote event registration system for prior registration data based upon at least a subset of the received identification data;

receiving the prior registration data on the mobile computing device;

transmitting a first subset of the prior registration data to a local event registration system in response to receipt of a payment success indicator; and

receiving registrant identification data generated by the local event registration system following the recordation of the first subset of the prior registration data thereon.