摘要 |
<p>An automated event ticket aucrioning system for receiving and evaluating bid information records received from a plurality of remote terminals, said bid information records corresponding to bids for one or more seats within a plurality of sections within a venue and corresponding to at least one particular event, each section having a plurality of seats. The system being adapted for receiving a message including a received bid information record from one of the plurality of remote terminals, calculating a lowest minimum acceptable bid value, store in memory the received bid information record if a value represented by the received bid price information exceeds the lowest minimum acceptable bid value, associate one or more particular seats having a predetermined preferential rank with the stored received bid information record based on the section identification and bid price information, and determine a ticket price for each of the one or more particular seats associated with a stored received bid information record and monitor the rate of bidding activity to generate data comprising the bidding activity, said data further comprising a predetermined low threshold value to determine the close of the auction.</p> |