System and methods for venue controlled buy-back and reselling of access privileges and tickets to closed group events
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1. An off-line/on-line access control system, with buy-back recording functionality, for controlling access to an enclosed area housing a mass attended event, the system comprising:
- a plurality of gate controllers operative to check if attendee is on a pre-downloaded expected list indicating attendees expected to participate at said mass attended event; and
apparatus for recording that at least one attendee'"'"'s privilege of access to said event has been bought back hence rescinded, by complementing a bit corresponding to the attendee in the “
expected list”
, before a cut-off-time.
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Abstract
Methods and apparatus for controlling venue buy-back and resale of access privileges to controlled group events limiting third party trading of subscription.
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1. An off-line/on-line access control system, with buy-back recording functionality, for controlling access to an enclosed area housing a mass attended event, the system comprising:
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a plurality of gate controllers operative to check if attendee is on a pre-downloaded expected list indicating attendees expected to participate at said mass attended event; and apparatus for recording that at least one attendee'"'"'s privilege of access to said event has been bought back hence rescinded, by complementing a bit corresponding to the attendee in the “
expected list”
, before a cut-off-time. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47)
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48. An off-line/on-line access control method, with buy-back recording functionality, for controlling access to an enclosed area housing a mass attended event, the method comprising:
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providing a plurality of gate controllers operative to check if attendee is on a pre-downloaded expected list indicating attendees expected to participate at the mass attended event; and recording that at least one attendee'"'"'s privilege of access to said event has been bought back hence rescinded, by complementing a bit corresponding to the attendee in the “
expected list”
, before a cut-off-time,wherein said method includes a decision step determining whether at least one individual token detected by one of said gate controllers has been used at the mass attended event and also includes, if said individual token has been used, denying entry to at least one holder of at least one such token and, if said token has not been used, changing a token event status associated with said individual token to “
used” and
allowing entry of a holder of said individual token.
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49. A computer program product, comprising a non-transitory computer usable medium having a computer readable program code embodied therein, said computer readable program code adapted to be executed to implement an off-line/on-line access control method, with buy-back recording functionality, for controlling access to an enclosed area housing a mass attended event, the method comprising:
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providing a plurality of gate controllers operative to check if attendee is on a pre-downloaded expected list indicating attendees expected to participate at said mass attended event; and recording that at least one attendee'"'"'s privilege of access to said event has been bought back hence rescinded, by complementing a bit corresponding to the attendee in the “
expected list”
, before a cut-off-time.
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