Artist-Preference Ticket Allocation for Bot-Resistant Fan Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional ticketing platforms impose excessive fees, generate long wait times, enable bot interference, and result in inflated secondary ticket prices, undermining the accessibility and experience of attending live events for genuine fans, while artists often do not receive fair profits from secondary market sales.
Innovation Solution
A ticket management service that leverages artist preference data from content streaming services to allocate tickets directly to top fans at face value, ensuring artists maintain profits and fans avoid bot interference and inflated prices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If conventional ticketing platforms are used, then tickets can be sold through established channels, but excessive fees and long wait times are imposed, and bot interference enables inflated secondary prices
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a ticket management service as an intermediary between artists and fans. This service leverages existing content service analytics to identify genuine fans and manages the ticket allocation process, thereby eliminating the need for conventional ticketing platforms that impose fees and create bot-friendly systems. The intermediary handles the complex coordination while presenting a simplified, fair process to users.
2Ease of operation
If artist-issued presale codes are used, then fan accessibility improves, but bot interference remains susceptible when executed through conventional services
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses feedback loops where content service analytics continuously monitor user behavior to identify and verify genuine fans. This feedback mechanism ensures that presale codes are distributed only to authentic fans based on their actual engagement patterns, making the system resistant to bot interference while maintaining high fan accessibility.
3Productivity
If tickets are allocated through conventional platforms, then distribution infrastructure is utilized, but artists do not receive fair profits from secondary market sales
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the secondary market component from the conventional ticketing ecosystem by implementing a managed resale system. The ticket management service directly controls the resale process, extracting profits that would otherwise be lost to third-party platforms. This ensures artists retain fair profits while maintaining high ticket sales volume through efficient allocation to verified fans.
Data Source
AI summary
Embodiments of the disclosed systems and methods provide for an improved service-based system for managing event ticketing. Various embodiments leverage available artist preference information obtained from streaming and/or download content services to more effectively allocate tickets to certain targeted users and/or user groups. Further embodiments allow for the use of artist-specified criteria in connection with ticket distribution and/or allocation, providing artist's granular control of ticketing for their associated events. Among other things, embodiments disclosed herein may allow for artists to be compensated for ticket sales at specified ticket face values, while reducing the likelihood of bot interference and inflated secondary ticket markets associated with conventional electronic ticketing platforms.