SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REDUCING THE UNAUTHORIZED RESALE OF EVENT TICKETS

摘要

The present invention relates to (a) a ticket management system for purchasing and allocating event tickets; (b) a ticket authentication system for authenticating tickets presented at an event; and (c) a secondary market system for the authorized resale of event tickets. These systems, individually and collectively, facilitate the reduction of ticket scalping by requiring the production of valid registered valued identification for the purchase, allocation, and resale of event tickets and the admittance to an event.

主权项

1. A method for reducing the unauthorized resale of tickets to an event comprising:
(a) reading valued identification information (“read valued identification information”) from one or more valued identifications at one or more locations at the event away from the entrance of the event and communicating the read valued identification information to a server; (b) reading ticket information from a ticket at the entrance of the event and communicating the ticket information to the server; (c) determining by the server whether to grant access to the event to a ticketholder of the ticket by determining if:
(i) the ticket information is valid; and(ii) the read valued identification information comprises valued identification information registered with the server in association with the ticket information (the “registered valued identification”); and (d) communicating by the server to the entrance of the event whether to grant access to the event to the ticketholder.