Event booking system
AssigneeBrainy Heads Inc.
InventorAmr Higgy
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Abstract
A system and method alleviates a risk of booking an undersold event by facilitating an agreement between a performer and a venue operator, a performer and a promoter, or a venue operator and a promoter on tentative ticket reservations for consumers. If a threshold relating to the tentative ticket reservations is achieved, then the event is booked, each tentative ticket reservation is executed, and the consumer is charged. If the threshold is not achieved, the event is abandoned and each tentative ticket reservation is cancelled.
Claims21
A method of booking a venue for an event and selling tickets to the event while alleviating a risk that the event will be undersold, comprising:
- obtaining, at a network server, a request to book a venue for an event from a performer, venue operator, or promoter;
- facilitating an agreement on a threshold relating to tentative ticket reservations that must be achieved within a certain time period before the event is confirmed;
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- offering to consumers, tentative ticket reservations to the event subject to the condition that if the threshold is achieved, each tentative ticket reservation becomes a final sale, and if the threshold is not achieved, the tentative ticket reservation is cancelled.
A system for booking a venue for an event and selling tickets to the event while alleviating a risk that the event will be undersold, comprising:
- a registration engine configured to obtain, at a network server, a request to book a venue for an event from a performer, venue operator, or promoter;
- a pre-sale agreement engine configured to facilitate an agreement on a threshold relating to tentative ticket reservations that must be achieved within a certain time period before the event is confirmed;
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- a sale engine configured to offer tentative ticket reservations to the event subject to the condition that if the threshold is achieved, each tentative ticket reservation becomes a final sale, and if the threshold is not achieved, the tentative ticket reservation is cancelled.
A method of booking a venue for an event and selling tickets to the event while alleviating a risk that the event will be undersold, comprising:
- obtaining, at a network server, a request to book a venue for an event from a performer;
- facilitating an agreement on a threshold relating to tentative ticket reservations that must be achieved within a certain time period before the event is confirmed, the facilitating an agreement further comprising allowing the performer to make a threshold proposal for acceptance by a promoter or a venue operator, and allowing the venue operator or the promoter to make a threshold counter-proposal if the proposal is not accepted;
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- offering to consumers, tentative ticket reservations to the event subject to the condition that if the threshold is achieved, each tentative ticket reservation becomes a final sale, and if the threshold is not achieved, the tentative ticket reservation is cancelled.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.