Method and system for unified presentation of event booking systems
View Patent ↗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.
1. A computer implemented method comprising:
assigning, via a computing device, a set of vendors to a unified ID for an event, the unified ID representing a set of unique IDs of the vendors;
presenting, via the computing device, for selection a representation corresponding to the unified ID;
in response to the representation of the unified ID being selected, presenting, via the computing device, an offer to select a ticket from a set of tickets for an event offered by the set of vendors;
providing, via the computing device, a local structure;
parsing, via the computing device, the set of vendors; and
providing, via the computing device, navigation through event categories.
2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising identifying a second set of vendors offering tickets to a second event.
3. The method of claim 2 , further comprising assigning to the second set of vendors a second unified ID, the second set of vendors offering tickets to the second event.
4. The method of claim 3 , further comprising:
presenting for selection a representation corresponding to the second unified ID; and
in response to the representation of the second unified ID being selected, presenting an offer to select a ticket from a set of tickets for the second event, offered by the second set of vendors.
5. The method of claim 4 , further comprising assigning a unified ID for a pre-identified category, and assigning to the unified ID for the pre-identified category, separate vendors offering tickets for events within the category.
6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the local structure includes the event categories and respective IDs.
7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising parsing the local structure.
8. A machine-readable medium having stored thereon a set of instructions which when executed on a computer system cause the computer system to perform a method, the method comprising:
assigning a set of vendors to a unified ID for an event, the unified ID representing a set of unique IDs of the vendors;
presenting for selection a representation corresponding to the unified ID;
in response to the representation of the unified ID being selected, presenting an offer to select a ticket from a set of tickets for an event offered by the set of vendors;
providing a local structure;
parsing the set of vendors; and
providing navigation through event categories.
9. The machine-readable medium of claim 8 , further comprising identifying a second set of vendors offering tickets to a second event.
10. The machine-readable medium of claim 9 , further comprising assigning to the second set of vendors a second unified ID, the second set of vendors offering tickets to the second event.
11. The machine-readable medium of claim 10 , further comprising:
presenting for selection a representation corresponding to the second unified ID; and
in response to the representation of the second unified ID being selected, presenting an offer to select a ticket from a set of tickets for the second event, offered by the second set of vendors.
12. The machine-readable medium of claim 11 , further comprising assigning a unified ID for a pre-identified category, and assigning to the unified ID for the pre-identified category, separate vendors offering tickets for events within the category.
13. The machine-readable medium of claim 8 , wherein the local structure includes the event categories and respective IDs.
14. The machine-readable medium of claim 8 , further comprising parsing the local structure.
15. A computer system comprising:
at least one server configured to:
assign a set of vendors to a unified ID for an event, the unified ID representing a set of unique IDs of the vendors;
present for selection a representation corresponding to the unified ID;
in response to the representation of the unified ID being selected, present an offer to select a ticket from a set of tickets for an event offered by the set of vendors;
provide a local structure;
parse the set of vendors; and
provide navigation through event categories.
16. The computer system of claim 15 , wherein the at least one server identifies a second set of vendors offering tickets to a second event.
17. The computer system of claim 16 , wherein the at least one server assigns to the second set of vendors a second unified ID, the second set of vendors offering tickets to the second event.
18. The computer system of claim 17 , wherein the at least one server:
presents for selection a representation corresponding to the second unified ID; and
in response to the representation of the second unified ID being selected, presents an offer to select a ticket from a set of tickets for the second event, offered by the second set of vendors.
19. The computer system of claim 18 , wherein the at least one server assigns a unified ID for a pre-identified category, and assigns to the unified ID for the pre-identified category, separate vendors offering tickets for events within the category.
20. The computer system of claim 15 , wherein the local structure includes the event categories and respective IDs