Client-Side Web App for Location-Based Ticket Aggregation
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Solution Overview
Problem
The secondary ticket market lacks an efficient mechanism for buying and selling tickets, leading to unused tickets and imbalanced supply and demand, especially for high-demand events, resulting in limited purchasing options for buyers seeking specific seat locations.
Innovation Solution
A client-side web application provides location-based upcoming event information, allowing users to search and view available tickets across multiple online marketplaces, displaying an aggregate of ticket inventory and enabling users to find multiple purchasing options through a desktop or mobile widget or web browser toolbar.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If a network-based secondary ticket marketplace is implemented, then ticket trading efficiency is improved, but device complexity increases due to requiring web browser or mobile device installation
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a client-side web application as an intermediary between the user and the network-based ticket marketplace. This intermediary is installed locally on the user's device (as a web browser or mobile application) and handles ticket search, comparison, and purchasing operations locally, reducing the complexity of continuously connecting to and navigating the network system while maintaining efficient ticket trading capabilities
2Ease of operation
If location-based upcoming event information is provided, then user convenience is improved, but loss of information increases due to requiring user location data collection
Solution Approach 1:
The client-side web application automatically detects and utilizes the user's location information without requiring manual input or explicit data sharing. The application serves itself by leveraging the device's built-in location services to determine the user's position, thereby providing convenient location-based event information while minimizing information loss through automatic, transparent location utilization
3Adaptability or versatility
If aggregate ticket inventory from multiple marketplaces is displayed, then purchasing options are improved, but device complexity increases due to requiring integration with multiple marketplaces
Solution Approach 1:
The client-side web application is designed with universal functionality to interface with multiple online marketplaces simultaneously. It employs standardized communication protocols and data formats that enable it to aggregate ticket inventory from various sources without requiring separate specialized interfaces for each marketplace, thereby providing versatile purchasing options while managing device complexity through unified integration architecture
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AI summary
A system and methods for providing location-based upcoming event information using a client-side web application implemented on a client device are described. The location-based upcoming event information may be provided to users of an online secondary ticket marketplace using a client-side web application implemented as desktop or mobile widget or within a web browser toolbar. The client-side web application may be configured to communicate with a network-based system that provides online marketplace and ticket fulfillment services and generate a query based upon the location of a user and other event criteria. The client-side web application may communicate the query to the network-based system and, in response, receive location-based upcoming event information which may be displayed to a user as a list and/or information on a map. The client-side web application may display an aggregate of ticket inventory available from multiple online marketplaces providing the user with multiple purchasing options.