Unified Event Ticket Booking System with Vendor ID Matching
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Solution Overview
Problem
The existing systems for buying and selling event tickets are inefficient due to the need for individual contact and comparison with multiple ticket vendors, making it time-consuming to manage ticket bookings across different providers.
Innovation Solution
A system that allows for the management of event ticket bookings within a single platform, regardless of the ticket provider's source or internal workings, by normalizing event categories and using a unified ID system to facilitate user navigation and vendor matching.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple ticket vendors are contacted individually to compare event tickets, then comprehensive ticket options can be obtained, but the process becomes very time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple ticket vendor systems into a single unified booking interface. Users can search and compare tickets from multiple vendors simultaneously through one system, eliminating the need to contact each vendor separately. This merging of previously separate vendor systems resolves the contradiction by maintaining comprehensive ticket comparison capability while dramatically reducing the time required for the booking process.
Solution Approach 2:
The unified booking system acts as an intermediary between users and multiple ticket vendors. This mediator layer consolidates access to various vendors through a single interface, allowing users to compare tickets without directly interacting with each vendor individually. The intermediary resolves the technical contradiction by preserving comprehensive vendor access while eliminating the time-consuming process of contacting each vendor separately.
2Productivity
If a unified system is implemented to manage bookings across multiple vendors, then the booking process is streamlined, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The unified booking system is designed with universal functionality to handle multiple ticket vendors through a single interface. This multi-functional platform can manage bookings across different vendors without requiring separate systems for each provider. The universal design resolves the contradiction by improving booking efficiency while managing system complexity through a standardized, multi-vendor architecture that handles diverse vendor systems through common protocols and interfaces.
3Reliability
If vendor-specific systems are maintained separately, then each vendor's internal workings are preserved, but users must navigate multiple different interfaces
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the complexity of multiple vendor interfaces by presenting a unified, standardized user interface while maintaining separate backend connections to each vendor's system. This segmentation allows users to interact with a single consistent interface regardless of the underlying vendor systems. The principle resolves the contradiction by preserving vendor system integrity in the backend while providing ease of operation through a standardized front-end interface that abstracts away vendor-specific complexities.
Data Source
AI summary
In one embodiment, a system, that may be executed as a method, is provided for managing the booking of event tickets inside a single system, regardless of the source of the tickets and how the system of each ticket provider actually works.