Re:StubHub granted U.S. patents for seat mapping
by ericHosick on Monday October 31, 2011 @01:50AM
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Wow. Where I live, since at least 2005, I can choose the seats in a movie theatre when buying a ticket (even online now). Seems like a lot of prior art.
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Re:StubHub granted U.S. patents for seat mapping
by btn on Monday October 31, 2011 @02:25AM
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The patent in question (which I believe is 8,024,234) only covers a method for people selling tickets to compare prices for tickets across a venue in the form of a venue map. It does not describe an interface for purchasing them.
(Don't construe this as a defence of it though.)