Event planning and collective funding method and system
OwnerBb Webbinventor
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Abstract
Method for a service registry provider, to provide a system that allows an event organizer, to plan and arrange for the collective funding of event day services. The service registry allows an event organizer to select contributors to receive information about an event, and further provides means to allow said contributors to purchase event day related services. Contributors are given means to access the event organizer's service registry, which is online database, where the available event day services can be purchased by contributors. The event organizer then receives the benefit of the event day services and items purchased by the third-party contributors at a selected event, without incurring the typical high cost of organizing an event that includes said services and items.
Claims25
A method for a service registry provider to provide an online event planning registry that allows an event organizer to arrange for the collective funding of event related services, the method comprising:
- receiving, at the service registry provider's website, a request by an event organizer or organizers, to register with the website in order to establish a unique service registry for the organizer's event;
- creating a service registry for the registered organizer's event that contains an on-line database of the services available to be provided by the service registry at the organizer's event;
- providing for the customization of the organizer's service registry by allowing the event organizer to tailor the registry by selecting desired event services;
- receiving the contact information of potential third-party contributors via the organizer's account and then delivering the event organizers' service registry via the internet to the identified contributors;
- enabling the third-party contributors to make monetary donations or select one or more services to contribute funding to on behalf of the event organizer;
- accumulating third-party contributions and maintaining an accurate accounting of contributor's donations;
- providing event organizers and third-party contributors with an updated accounting of all partially or fully funded services;
- enabling the organizer to use cash donations, money from partially funded services, or the organizer's own resources to purchase services in the registry prior to the event;
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- providing the fully funded services to the event organizer at the event.
A method for a service registry provider to provide an online event planning registry to a third-party venue, which would allow such venue to offer its services to be purchased by event organizers via collective funding, the method comprising:
- receiving, at the service registry provider's website, a request by a third-party venue, to register with the website in order to establish a unique service registry for the venue;
- creating a service registry for the venue that contains an on-line database to host the services the venue wishes to offer for sale to event organizers;
- providing for the customization of the venue's service registry by allowing the venue to tailor the registry by providing information regarding the types of services it offers and the costs for such services to an event organizer;
- publishing the venue's service registry online in the form of a website and allowing a third-party event organizer to register with the website in order to establish a unique service registry for the organizer's event;
- providing for the customization of the organizer's service registry by allowing the event organizer to tailor the registry by selecting desired event services offered by the venue;
- receiving the contact information of potential third-party contributors via the organizer's account and then delivering the event organizers' service registry via the internet to the identified contributors;
- enabling the third-party contributors to make monetary donations or select one or more services to contribute funding to on behalf of the event organizer;
- accumulating third-party contributions and maintaining an accurate accounting of contributor's donations;
- providing event organizers and third-party contributors with an updated accounting of all partially or fully funded services;
- enabling the organizer to use cash donations, money from partially funded services, or the organizer's own resources to purchase services in the registry prior to the event;
- providing the venue with an updated accounting of all partially or fully funded services prior to the event;
- delivering to the venue any moneys collected by the service registry from the third-party contributors less any costs or fees;
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- instructing the venue to provide the fully funded services to the event organizer at the event.
A method for an event venue and/or service provider to provide a service registry to an event organizer comprising the steps of:
- creating, by an event organizer, an account with the service registry provider,
- establishing a service registry in the name of an event organizer, said service registry containing a list of event day services and items each of which is associated with a price representing its cost as defined by the service registry provider,
- receiving the selection of event day offerings from the event organizer for inclusion in its unique service registry,
- making available the service registry for online access to third party contributors,
- receiving from third party contributors cash purchases of event day related services and items contributed in the name of the event organizer,
- updating the service registry after services are purchased,
- accounting to the event organizer for the services purchased, and
- providing the purchased services to the event organizer at the event.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.