US 2025/0174091 A1 · ELECTRONIC PRINTERLESS TICKET ISSUANCE SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USE

Abstract

A method for operating a ticketing system, wherein tickets including human-readable content and machine-readable content and a unique identifier are provided to a ticket user in a physical format. A computer-based platform is accessible to user devices over a network and is associated with electronic storage that stores information of ticket users, ticket clients and tickets. If a user issues a ticket, the platform creates or updates a client record that associates client information collected by the user with a unique identifier and updates a user record. The ticket is issued without requiring modification of the pre-printed information or modification of a physical format of the ticket with other than pre-printed information. Then, in response to (i) a portion of the ticket being imaged by a user device or (ii) the unique identifier being input into the platform with a user device, a portion of the client record is displayed on a user device.

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Dependent claims

A ticket dispenser comprising:

a body having an internal space defined by peripheral wall and a closed bottom located at one end of the peripheral wall, wherein the internal space is sized and configured to hold a roll of pre-printed tickets;
an open top of the body located at an end of the peripheral wall opposite the closed bottom;
a cap configured to removably mount over the open top to secure the roll of pre-printed tickets within the internal space;
a slot formed in the peripheral wall of the body that is sized and configured to permit the roll of pre-printed tickets to be unrolled within the internal space by guiding a free end of the roll of tickets through the slot.

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A method for operating a ticketing system comprising the steps of:

providing a first plurality of tickets to a ticket user in a physical format and including pre-printed content including human-readable content and machine-readable content, wherein each ticket is associated with a unique identifier;
providing a computer-based platform that is accessible over a network using a plurality of user devices, wherein the platform is associated with at least one electronic storage configured to store user information for one or more ticket users, client information for one or more ticket clients and ticket information for one or more tickets;
within the platform, associating each of the first plurality of tickets with a user record for the ticket user in the at least one electronic storage;
within the platform, in response to a user issuing a first ticket of the first plurality of tickets by (i) imaging at least a portion of the machine-readable content of a first ticket of the first plurality of tickets with one of the plurality of user devices or (ii) inputting the unique identifier into the platform via an input of one of the plurality of user devices and inputting client information into the platform via the input, automatically creating or updating a client record in the at least one electronic storage that associates at least a portion of the client information input by the user with the unique identifier of the first ticket and updating the user record, wherein the ticket is issued without requiring modification of the pre-printed information or the physical format of the first ticket with other than pre-printed information;
within the platform, in response to (i) a portion of the machine-readable content of a first ticket being imaged with one of the plurality of user devices or (ii) the unique identifier being input into the platform with one of the plurality of user devices, displaying at least a portion of the client record on the user device.

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A method for issuing a ticket using a ticketing system, the method comprising the steps of:

accessing a plurality of tickets that are provided in a physical format and that include pre-printed content including human-readable content and machine-readable content, wherein each ticket is associated with a unique identifier;
and
issuing a ticket that associates client information for a first client with the unique identifier of a first ticket of the plurality of ticket in an electronic storage by (i) imaging at least a portion of the machine-readable content of a first ticket of the first plurality of tickets with a user device or (ii) inputting the unique identifier into a computer-based platform that is accessible over a network via an input of the user device and inputting client information into the platform via the input, wherein issuing a ticket automatically creates or updates a client record associated with the client and the unique identifier of the first ticket and creates or updates a user record associated with the user and the unique identifier of the ticket, wherein the ticket is issued without requiring modification of the pre-printed information or the physical format of the first ticket with other than pre-printed information.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Electronic printerless ticket issuance system and method of use

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Electronic printerless ticket issuance system and method of use

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Abstract

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