Systems and methods for leveraging social queuing to identify and prevent ticket purchaser simulation

A method for filtering and sorting ticket purchasing opportunities for an event, the method comprising:

• querying a social media account associated with a user to obtain social media account information or a third-party data source to obtain user information;
• receiving social media account information from the social media account or receiving user information from the third-party data source;
• querying the social media account to obtain social media identification information;
• compiling either or both of the social media account information from the social media account or the user information from the third-party data source to form a user account history;
• calculating an index value based on the user information, said index value being based, at least in part, on the account history;
• determining whether the index value is more than a first threshold value;
• in response to determination that index value is more than the threshold value, associating the social media identification information as a priority identification information;
• receiving a plurality of ticket purchasing requests associated with an event, wherein each of the plurality of ticket purchase requests are associated with the user;
• for ticket purchasing requests associated with the priority identification information, placing ticket purchasing requests in a priority ticket purchase queue;
• for logins not associated with the priority identification information, placing ticket purchasing requests in a non-priority ticket purchase queue;
• determining if the index value is more than a second threshold value;
• and
• in response to determining that the index value is more than the second threshold value, tagging the social media identification information as a non-priority identification information.

A system for filtering and sorting ticket purchasing opportunities for an event, comprising:

• one or more data processors;
• and
• a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium containing instructions which, when executed on the one or more data processors, cause the one or more data processors to perform operations including:
• querying a social media account associated with a user to obtain social media account information or a third-party data source to obtain user information;
• receiving social media account information from the social media account or receiving user information from the third-party data source;
• querying the social media account to obtain social media identification information;
• compiling either or both of the social media account information from the social media account or the user information from the third-party data source to form a user account history;
• calculating an index value based on the user information, said index value being based, at least in part, on the account history;
• determining whether the index value is more than a first threshold value;
• in response to determination that index value is more than the threshold value, associating the social media identification information as a priority identification information;
• receiving a plurality of ticket purchasing requests associated with an event, wherein each of the plurality of ticket purchase requests are associated with the user;
• for ticket purchasing requests associated with the priority identification information, placing ticket purchasing requests in a priority ticket purchase queue;
• for logins not associated with the priority identification information, placing ticket purchasing requests in a non-priority ticket purchase queue;
• determining if the index value is more than a second threshold value;
• and
• in response to determining that the index value is more than the second threshold value, tagging the social media identification information as a non-priority identification information.

A computer-program product tangibly embodied in a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium, including instructions configured to cause a data processing apparatus to perform operations including:

• querying a social media account associated with a user to obtain social media account information or a third-party data source to obtain user information;
• receiving social media account information from the social media account or receiving user information from the third-party data source;
• querying the social media account to obtain social media identification information;
• compiling either or both of the social media account information from the social media account or the user information from the third-party data source to form a user account history;
• calculating an index value based on the user information, said index value being based, at least in part, on the account history;
• determining whether the index value is more than a first threshold value;
• in response to determination that index value is more than the threshold value, associating the social media identification information as a priority identification information;
• receiving a plurality of ticket purchasing requests associated with an event, wherein each of the plurality of ticket purchase requests are associated with the user;
• for ticket purchasing requests associated with the priority identification information, placing ticket purchasing requests in a priority ticket purchase queue;
• for logins not associated with the priority identification information, placing ticket purchasing requests in a non-priority ticket purchase queue;
• determining if the index value is more than a second threshold value;
• and
• in response to determining that the index value is more than the second threshold value, tagging the social media identification information as a non-priority identification information.