Geolocation-Based Ticket Exchange System
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current ticket exchange systems lack a convenient method for connecting and facilitating real-time ticket exchanges between separate and unrelated users, particularly at events, leading to inefficiencies and potential waste due to unused tickets.
Innovation Solution
A mobile application that allows users to authenticate, locate, and negotiate ticket exchanges using geolocation services, push notifications, and unique identification codes, enabling users to find and meet each other at events for ticket swaps within a defined radius.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If users rely on traditional ticket exchange methods (venue purchase or third-party services), then ticket availability is improved, but real-time direct user interaction and convenience during events is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a mobile application as an intermediary platform that connects ticket holders and seekers directly at events. The app serves as a mediator that enables real-time communication, negotiation, and exchange facilitation without requiring users to go through traditional venue channels or third-party services, thus improving both convenience and response time.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables users to independently search for, contact, negotiate with, and complete ticket exchanges with other users without requiring venue staff or third-party service intervention. Users authenticate themselves, browse available tickets, initiate contacts, negotiate terms, and coordinate exchanges entirely through the mobile application, achieving complete self-service functionality.
2Productivity
If users attempt to locate and contact other users at crowded events, then real-time exchange is enabled, but difficulty in finding and identifying each other increases
Solution Approach 1:
The mobile application continuously tracks and updates user locations and ticket availability information throughout the event. The system maintains persistent connections between users, enabling continuous searching, filtering, and communication without interruption, ensuring that users can always find and contact each other regardless of venue crowding or movement.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs visual identification mechanisms through the mobile application, such as displaying unique codes, colors, or visual indicators that users can easily recognize in crowded environments. These visual markers enable quick identification and verification of potential exchange partners without requiring users to search through crowds or engage in time-consuming introductions.
3Reliability
If a comprehensive authentication and location system is implemented, then user security and accurate location tracking are improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The mobile application leverages the existing multi-functional capabilities of smartphones, using built-in authentication systems (fingerprint, face recognition, PIN), GPS location services, push notification systems, and camera functions. By utilizing these universal device features, the patent achieves robust security and location tracking without requiring separate dedicated hardware or complex custom authentication mechanisms.
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AI summary
A system and method for exchanging or selling event tickets, including a database, a computing device, a seller's mobile device and a buyer's mobile device, a network connecting the computing device and the mobile devices, a plurality of modules executing on the computing device including an authentication module, a geolocation information, and a tickets information module, wherein the geolocation information module tracks the geolocations of the one or more users' mobile devices and verifies that the geolocations of the seller's mobile device and the buyer's mobile device are within a same venue as a prerequisite to the confirmation platform module facilitating an exchange of tickets.