Real-Time Ticket Server for Vacated Stadium Seats

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions that when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform steps comprising:

• providing, via a real-time ticket exchange server, a first ticket for a first section of the stadium to a first client device of a first user in response to a request for the first ticket from the first user, wherein a specific seat within the first section is not assigned for the first ticket until after the first client device arrives at the first section of the stadium;
• in response to detecting that the first client device is physically located at the first section of the stadium, selecting a seat within the first section from a set of available seats within the first section and assigning the seat to the first ticket based on groups of tickets sold for the first section that have not yet been assigned seats such that the selected seat does not prevent any group of tickets from being able to be seated in consecutive seats within the section;
• unlocking the seat in response to detecting, via the first client device of the first user, a presence of the first user at the seat;
• and
• after determining that the first user surrendered the seat and in response to detecting that a second client device associated with a second ticket that is assigned to the seat after the first user surrenders the seat is physically located at the seat, unlocking the seat.

A computer system comprising:

• a computer processor;
• and
• a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storage instructions that when executed by the computer processor cause the processor to perform actions comprising:
• providing, via a real-time ticket exchange server, a first ticket for a first section of the stadium to a first client device of a first user in response to a request for the first ticket from the first user, wherein a specific seat within the first section is not assigned for the first ticket until after the first client device arrives at the first section of the stadium;
• in response to detecting that the first client device is physically located at the first section of the stadium, selecting a seat within the first section from a set of available seats within the first section and assigning the seat to the first ticket based on groups of tickets sold for the first section that have not yet been assigned seats such that the selected seat does not prevent any group of tickets from being able to be seated in consecutive seats within the section;
• unlocking the seat in response to detecting, via the first client device of the first user, a presence of the first user at the seat;
• and
• after determining that the first user surrendered the seat and in response to detecting that a second client device associated with a second ticket that is assigned to the seat after the first user surrenders the seat is physically located at the seat, unlocking the seat.