Universal Ticketing and Payment System

摘要

A remotely-accessible computer system allows a purchase to establish an account and then purchase admission to live events or venues. The system provides the purchaser with a pass containing data identifying the account established for the purchaser which account contains information about purchased admissions. The pass can be used to gain access multiple events. The purchaser presents the pass at the entrance to the event and a reader reads the identification data and forwards it to the system. The system checks that the purchaser has purchased entry to the particular event and provides a signal to the event indicating whether admission to the event should be allowed or refused.

主权项

1. A system for selling access to multiple events at multiple venues to multiple purchasers including:
a plurality of reusable passes associated with a member, wherein each of the reusable passes include an RFID chip which contains data indicative of an identity of the pass; a computer system accessible by users from remote locations using a network, wherein said computer system operates to provide: a membership function which establishes and maintains a member account associated with the member including data identifying the account and data identifying the plurality of reusable passes associated with the member, a booking function which enables the member to purchase access to one or more future events at different venues, a memory function which retains information about the member, about the plurality of reusable passes associated with the member and about the events to which the member has purchased access, a distribution function which enables the member to allocate entry authorization to specific events for a selected set of the reusable passes associated with the member account, and a verification function which provides an admission indication signal based upon said entry authorization selected for each of said reusable passes; a plurality of readers at locations associated with venues hosting the events, wherein said readers are capable of reading said data on the reusable passes and transmitting an interrogation signal associated with the reusable pass to the computer system, wherein said interrogation signal is responsive to the data indicative of the identity of the reusable pass; wherein the verification function operates in response to said interrogation signal and provides said admission indication signal to the venue associated with said interrogation signal based upon said reusable pass associated with the interrogation signal.