Systems and methods for short-range communication between devices

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11263849-B2
Application number	US-202117240769-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 26, 2021
Priority date	Jun 27, 2016
Publication date	Mar 1, 2022
Grant date	Mar 1, 2022

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for communicating between devices using short-range communication links. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to systems and methods for communicating access-right data between devices for verification or transfer.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for facilitating group entry to a venue for an event, comprising:
identifying a first user device being associated with a digital token that represents a plurality of electronic tickets to an event, and the event being hosted at a defined location of the venue for a defined time period, wherein:
the plurality of electronic tickets is associated with the first user device and at least one second user device, and
the digital token is identified when the first user device is within a defined vicinity of the venue;
identifying additional information from the digital token, wherein the additional information is used to uniquely identify at least one second user device,
initiating a communication with the at least one second user device, wherein:
the communication transmits a representation of an electronic ticket from the plurality of electronic tickets, and
the representation is used for entry to venue during the event.

2. The method for facilitating group entry to venue during an event, as recited in claim 1 , wherein the additional information comprises identifiers associated with the at least one second user device.

3. The method for facilitating group entry to venue during an event, as recited in claim 2 , wherein the identifiers associated with the at least one second user device comprises at least one of phone number, email address, IP address, an address of a hardware component of the at least one second user device, social media accounts.

4. The method for facilitating group entry to venue during an event, as recited in claim 1 , wherein the communication comprises at least one of an email, push notification, IP call, voice call, communication over social media accounts.

5. The method for facilitating group entry to venue during an event, as recited in claim 1 , wherein the communication to the at least one second user device is transmitted when the at least one second user device is in proximity to the venue using short-range communication techniques.

6. The method for facilitating group entry to venue during an event, as recited in claim 5 , wherein the short-range communication techniques comprise Bluetooth, Zigbee, Near Field Communication (NFC).

7. The method for facilitating group entry to venue during an event, as recited in claim 1 , wherein the representation of the electronic ticket comprises at least one of an image, text, a hyperlink, a code.

8. A system for facilitating group entry to a venue for an event, comprising:
one or more processors; and
a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium containing instructions which, when executed on the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations including:
identifying a first user device being associated with a digital token that represents a plurality of electronic tickets to an event, and the event being hosted at a defined location of the venue for a defined time period, wherein:
the plurality of electronic tickets is associated with the first user device and at least one second user device, and
the digital token is identified when the first user device is within a defined vicinity of the venue;
identifying additional information from the digital token, wherein the additional information is used to uniquely identify at least one second user device, initiating a communication with the at least one second user device, wherein:

the communication transmits a representation of an electronic ticket from the plurality of electronic tickets, and
the representation is used for entry to venue during the event.

9. The system for facilitating group entry to venue during an event, as recited in claim 8 , wherein the additional information comprises identifiers associated with the at least one second user device.

10. The system for facilitating group entry to venue during an event, as recited in claim 9 , wherein the identifiers associated with the at least one second user device comprises at least one of phone number, email address, IP address, an address of a hardware component of the at least one second user device, social media accounts.

11. The system for facilitating group entry to venue during an event, as recited in claim 8 , wherein the communication comprises at least one of an email, push notification, IP call, voice call, communication over social media accounts.

12. The system for facilitating group entry to venue during an event, as recited in claim 8 , wherein the communication to the at least one second user device is transmitted when the at least one second user device is in proximity to the venue using short-range communication techniques.

13. The system for facilitating group entry to venue during an event, as recited in claim 12 , wherein the short-range communication techniques comprise Bluetooth, Zigbee, Near Field Communication (NFC).

14. The system for facilitating group entry to venue during an event, as recited in claim 8 , wherein the representation of the electronic ticket comprises at least one of an image, text, a hyperlink, a code.

15. A computer-program product tangibly embodied in a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium, including instructions configured to cause a data processing apparatus to perform operations including:
identifying a first user device being associated with a digital token that represents a plurality of electronic tickets to an event, and the event being hosted at a defined location of a venue for a defined time period, wherein:
the plurality of electronic tickets is associated with the first user device and at least one second user device, and
the digital token is identified when the first user device is within a defined vicinity of the venue;
identifying additional information from the digital token, wherein the additional information is used to uniquely identify at least one second user device,
initiating a communication with the at least one second user device, wherein:
the communication transmits a representation of an electronic ticket from the plurality of electronic tickets, and
the representation is used for entry to venue during the event.

16. The computer-program product for facilitating group entry to venue during an event, as recited in claim 15 , wherein the additional information comprises identifiers associated with the at least one second user device.

17. The computer-program product for facilitating group entry to venue during an event, as recited in claim 16 , wherein the identifiers associated with the at least one second user device comprises at least one of phone number, email address, IP address, an address of a hardware component of the at least one second user device, social media accounts.

18. The computer-program product for facilitating group entry to venue during an event, as recited in claim 16 , wherein the communication comprises at least one of an email, push notification, IP call, voice call, communication over social media accounts.

19. The computer-program product for facilitating group entry to venue during an event, as recited in claim 16 , wherein the communication to the at least one second user device is transmitted when the at least one second user device is in proximity to the venue using short-range communication techniques.

20. The computer-program product for facilitating group entry to venue during an event, as recited in claim 19 , wherein the short-range communication techniques comprise Bluetooth, Zigbee, Near Field Communication (NFC).

Assignees

• Live Nation Entertainment Inc

Inventors

• Truong Benson
• Lewis Daniel
• Estes Michael
• Pratt Andrew
• Burleigh Justin
• Law Danon

Classifications

• H04W12/63

  Location-dependent; Proximity-dependent · CPC title

• H04W4/80

  Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication · CPC title

• G07C9/00571

  operated by interacting with a central unit · CPC title

• H04W12/77

  Graphical identity · CPC title

• G07C9/00857

  where the code of the data carrier can be programmed · CPC title