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

US7917398B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• StubHub, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Ashley Gibson · Pacifica, US
• Liza Marie Walsh · San Francisco, US
• Gabriel Manuel Correa · San Francisco, US
• Steven Min Lau · Westport, US
• Benjamin Salles · San Mateo, US
• Sandy Ngo · San Francisco, US
• Ronald Levi · San Francisco, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 25, 2006
• Grant date: Mar 29, 2011
• Expiry date: Jul 27, 2029

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q30/0643
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

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.