US 2017/0255934 A1 · Systems and Methods for Facilitating Event Access Through Payment Accounts

Abstract

Exemplary systems and methods for linking access credentials with payment accounts and facilitating access to events based on associations between the payment accounts and the events are disclosed. One exemplary method includes receiving, at a computing device, an authorization request for purchasing access to an event where the authorization request includes event content, ticket content, and payment content, and where the authorization request is associated with a merchant. The method also includes determining, at the computing device, whether the merchant and/or the event are registered, and when the merchant and the event are registered, storing, in memory of the computing device, a link between a payment account identified in the payment content and the event, whereby the link is able to be retrieved, by the merchant, via a subsequent authorization request, to indicate access to the event.

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Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method of linking access credentials with payment accounts, the method comprising:

receiving, at a computing device, an authorization request for purchasing access to an event, the authorization request including event content, ticket content, and payment content, the authorization request associated with a merchant;
determining, at the computing device, whether the merchant is registered;
determining, at the computing device, whether the event is registered;
and
when the merchant and the event are registered, storing, in memory of the computing device, a link between a payment account identified in the payment content and the event, whereby the link is able to be retrieved, by the merchant, via a subsequent authorization request, to indicate access to the event.

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A system for use in facilitating access to events, through use of payment accounts, the system comprising:

a payment network for coordinating authorization of payment account transactions;
and
an access engine associated with the payment network and configured to:
receive an authorization request for a transaction directed to the payment network, the authorization request involving a merchant and being directed to a payment account;
when the authorization request includes at least event content related to an event and ticket content, determine whether the event is registered to the access engine;
when the event is registered and the transaction is approved by an issuer of the payment account, append a confirmation number to an authorization reply, transmitted to the merchant in response to the authorization request, thereby permitting the merchant to determine, via a subsequent authorization request, whether a consumer associated with the payment account is entitled to access to the event.

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A non-transitory computer readable storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon to facilitate access to events through use of payment accounts linked to the events, wherein when executed by a processor, the computer-executable instructions cause the processor to:

register an event for access by consumers, based on payment accounts associated with the consumers linked to the event;
retrieve at least event content for the registered event from an access data structure, in response to a transaction purchasing access to the registered event by a consumer;
and
generate a link between the registered event and a payment account associated with the consumer, the link including the event content and payment account content for the payment account associated with the consumer, whereby the consumer can subsequently obtain the purchased access to the registered event based on credentials for the payment account associated with the consumer and linked to the registered event.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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