Systems and methods for reducing the unauthorized resale of event tickets
AssigneeFair Ticket Solutions Inc.
InventorsAlan Gelfand, Martin Ortmayr, Kevin Peng, Todd Edmondson
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Abstract
The present invention relates to (a) a ticket management system for purchasing and allocating event tickets; (b) a ticket authentication system for authenticating tickets presented at an event; and (c) a secondary market system for the authorized resale of event tickets. These systems, individually and collectively, facilitate the reduction of ticket scalping by requiring the production of valid registered valued identification for the purchase, allocation, and resale of event tickets and the admittance to an event.
Claims21
A method for reducing the unauthorized resale of tickets to an event comprising:
- (a) reading valued identification information (“read valued identification information”) from one or more valued identifications at one or more locations at the event away from the entrance of the event and communicating the read valued identification information to a server;
- (b) reading ticket information from a ticket at the entrance of the event and communicating the ticket information to the server;
- (c) determining by the server whether to grant access to the event to a ticketholder of the ticket by determining if:
- (i) the ticket information is valid;
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- (ii) the read valued identification information comprises valued identification information registered with the server in association with the ticket information (the “registered valued identification”);
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- (d) communicating by the server to the entrance of the event whether to grant access to the event to the ticketholder.
A system for reducing the unauthorized resale of tickets to an event comprising:
- (a) a valued identification validation unit for placement at the event away from the entrance of the event, the valued identification validation unit comprising a first processor, a valued identification reader that is communicative with the first processor, and a first computer readable medium that is communicative with the first processor and that comprises instructions that when executed by the first processor cause the valued identification unit to read valued identification information (“read valued identification information”) from a valued identification presented to the valued identification reader and to communicate the read valued identification information to a server;
- (b) a ticket validation unit for placement at the entrance of the event, the ticket validation unit comprising a second processor, a ticket reader that is communicative with the second processor, and a second computer readable medium that is communicative with the second processor and that comprises instructions that when executed by the second processor cause the ticket validation unit to read ticket information from a ticket presented to the ticket reader and to communicate the ticket information to the server;
- (c) wherein the server comprises a third processor and a third computer readable medium that is communicative with the third processor, the third computer readable medium comprising instructions that when executed by the third processor cause the server to:
- (i) receive valued identification information from the valued identification validation unit;
- (ii) receive ticket information from the ticket validation unit;
- (iii) determine whether to grant access to the event to a ticketholder of the ticket by determining if:
- (1) the ticket information is valid;
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- (2) the read valued identification information comprises valued identification information registered with the server in association with the ticket information (the “registered valued identification”);
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- (iv) communicate to the ticket validation unit whether to grant access to the event to the ticketholder.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.