Weather-Enhanced Graphical Preview for Ticket Marketplaces
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional online ticket marketplaces do not provide users with weather information for seating sections or specific seats, leading to potential issues like prolonged exposure to direct sunlight during events.
Innovation Solution
A weather-enhanced graphical preview system that provides a 360-degree digital image of a seating section or seat, including weather conditions such as sun position and wind direction, allowing users to make informed ticket purchasing decisions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If conventional online ticket marketplaces provide basic ticket information without weather data, then the system complexity remains low, but users lack critical information about seating environment conditions
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a weather data service as an intermediary component that provides weather information to the ticket marketplace system. This mediator layer allows the system to access external weather data without fundamentally restructuring the core ticketing functionality, thus reducing information loss while limiting complexity increase to the intermediary layer only.
Solution Approach 2:
The system is segmented into distinct functional modules: ticket information display, weather data acquisition, and integrated preview generation. This segmentation allows weather information to be added as a separate functional block, enabling users to access comprehensive information without requiring the entire system to be redesigned, thereby managing complexity through modular architecture.
2Loss of information
If the system integrates weather data and 360-degree images to enhance user decision-making, then user information quality improves, but the data processing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-acquires and stores 360-degree images and weather data before users make ticket purchasing decisions. By performing these data acquisition actions in advance, the system reduces real-time processing complexity while ensuring comprehensive information is available when users need it for decision-making.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of processing complex real-time weather data and 360-degree imagery, the system creates simplified visual representations and previews that copy the essential information in an easily digestible format. This allows users to access comprehensive seating environment information without the system needing to maintain complex processing capabilities during the actual user interaction.
3Ease of operation
If the marketplace provides detailed venue and weather information, then user satisfaction and informed decision-making improve, but the information presentation complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges ticket information, venue details, 360-degree images, and weather data into a single integrated preview interface. By combining these previously separate information sources into one unified display, the system improves ease of operation - users access all necessary information in one place - while managing presentation complexity through integration rather than requiring users to navigate multiple separate systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The integrated preview system serves multiple functions simultaneously: displaying ticket details, showing venue layout through 360-degree images, providing weather conditions, and enabling informed decision-making. This multi-functionality approach consolidates what would otherwise require separate tools and interfaces into a single universal platform, improving user ease of operation without proportionally increasing complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
A method to present a personalized list of items is disclosed. The method may include presenting information pertaining to an event via a display device. The information pertaining to the event may include a time element. The method may further include receiving a selection of a location associated with the event. The method may also include sending a request for the digital image to preview the event from the location and for weather data in view of the time element. The method may include receiving the digital image and the weather data. The method may further include presenting the digital image and the weather data via the display device.