Method and system for illustrating where a ticket is located in an event venue

• US 9,978,096 B2
• Filed: 08/26/2013
• Issued: 05/22/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/25/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: StubHub, Inc.
• Original Assignee: StubHub, Inc.
• Inventors: Gibson, Ashley, Walsh, Liza, Correa, Gabriel Manuel, Lau, Steven Min, Salles, Benjamin Issasschar, Ngo, Sandy, Levi, Ronald
• Primary Examiner(s): Misiaszek, Michael
• Application Number:
  US14/010,408
• Publication Number:
  US 20130346122A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,730 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/02 Reservations, e.g. for tickets, services or events
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0623 Item investigation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0625 Directed, with specific intent or strategy
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0627 using item specifications
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0633 Lists, e.g. purchase orders, compilation or processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0641 Shopping interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0643 Graphical representation of items or shoppers

Abstract

A system accepts event criteria for at least one ticket and at least one event; accepts price criteria for the ticket(s) and the event(s); displays an interactive graphics-based event venue map illustrating a location of all sections at a venue with at least one ticket meeting the event and price criteria; accepts section selection criteria, at least one section being selected from the interactive graphics-based event venue map; displays ticket information to allow a user to drill down to a specific ticket, cause a location of the specific ticket to be displayed in the interactive venue map; and enable a capability to utilize the interactive venue map to choose a section of interest, causing corresponding ticket information to be displayed in the web browsing language.

Claims

1. A method of illustrating locations of available tickets in an event venue, comprising:

presenting, by an application of a client computing device, a user interface allowing a user to perform a search of tickets listed for sale by a ticket service;

accepting, at the user interface, event criteria for a ticket at an event;

displaying, by the application, an interactive graphics-based event venue map for the event venue illustrating locations of sections having tickets meeting the event criteria located at the event venue;

receiving, from the user through the application, a selection of a particular section of interest on the interactive graphics-based event venue map;

in response to receiving the selection, adjusting a scale of the particular section corresponding to an event venue section having the tickets to the event using the interactive graphics-based event venue map within the application;

accepting, via a selection through the interactive graphics-based event venue map, the particular section of interest; and

displaying ticket information corresponding to tickets located in the particular section of interest as an overlay on the interactive graphics-based event venue map.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving price criteria for the event.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying a ticket listing corresponding to tickets meeting the event criteria.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying prices at which tickets to the event have been sold.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying a number of available tickets within one or more sections at the event venue.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the overlay is displayed when the user hovers a mouse over a section on the interactive graphics-based event venue map.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the interactive graphics-based event venue map is shown in color coded sections.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising displaying a list of colored boxes outside the interactive graphics-based event venue map corresponding to the colored coded sections.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein only the color coded sections have ticket availability.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the overlay displays a number of tickets available and a price range for the tickets available in the particular section of interest.

11. A system, comprising:

a non-transitory memory; and

one or more hardware processors coupled to the non-transitory memory and configured to read instruction from the non-transitory memory to perform operations comprising;

presenting a user interface allowing a user to perform a search of tickets listed for sale by a ticket service;

accepting, at the user interface, event criteria for a ticket at an event;

displaying an interactive graphics-based event venue map for an event venue illustrating locations of sections having tickets meeting the event criteria located at the event venue;

receiving, from the user through an application, a selection of a particular section of interest on the interactive graphics-based event venue map;

in response to receiving the selection, adjusting a scale of the particular section corresponding to an event venue section having the tickets to the event using the interactive graphics-based event venue map within the application;

accepting, via a selection through the interactive graphics-based event venue map, the particular section of interest; and

displaying ticket information corresponding to tickets located in the particular section of interest as an overlay on the interactive graphics-based event venue map.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving price criteria for the event.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein the operations further comprise:

displaying a ticket listing corresponding to tickets meeting the event criteria.

14. The system of claim 11, wherein the operations further comprise:

displaying prices at which tickets to the event have been sold.

15. The system of claim 11, wherein operations further comprise:

displaying a number of available tickets within one or more sections at the event venue.

16. The system of claim 11, wherein the overlay is displayed when the user hovers a mouse over a section on the interactive graphics-based event venue map.

17. The system of claim 11, wherein the interactive graphics-based event venue map is shown in color coded sections.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the operations further comprise displaying a list of colored boxes outside the interactive graphics-based event venue map corresponding to the colored coded sections.

19. The system of claim 17, wherein only the color coded sections have ticket availability.

20. The system of claim 11, wherein the overlay displays a number of tickets available and a price range for the tickets available in the particular section of interest.