Distributing things through personalized networks

Details Distributing things through personalized networks Distributing things through personalized networks

2008-06-05

2011-10-18

Zare, Scott (Department: 3687)

Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co

Automated electrical financial or business practice or...

Electronic shopping

C705S014490, C705S014500, C705S027100

Reexamination Certificate

active

08041610

ABSTRACT:
Things are distributed through a personalized network of trusted parties specified by a member. A specific implementation of the invention is for distributing unused tickets, but the principles of the invention are applicable to other things besides tickets. A system of the invention drives or increases attendance by enabling consumers to push their seats (i.e., unused tickets) to members of a trusted network (created by the consumer themselves) rather than making the seats available for sale to the public or manually locating an interested party and transferring them. Additionally, the system performs the time consuming work of contacting members of the trusted network to find out if they are interested in using the tickets for a particular event while receiving and recording their responses.

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