Location detection devices for event scheduling

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016148164-A1
Application number	US-201414554885-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Nov 26, 2014
Priority date	Nov 26, 2014
Publication date	May 26, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

There are provided systems and methods for location detection device for event scheduling. A user may plan on attending an event hosted at a venue, such as a movie, sports game, and/or theater production. The user may provide information about the user's location and/or event attendance to a service provider. The information may include a location for the user in relationship to the event so that the service provider may determine a time that the user may arrive at the venue. The information may also be utilized by the service provider to determine a playlist that the user would like to view for the event, such as a list of songs in a concert. Using the information, the service provider may determine a schedule for the event. In one example, the schedule may delay a start time for the event based on the arrival time for the user.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A system comprising:
an event schedule determining module comprising at least one hardware processor that accesses event scheduling information for an event and first location information for a first user attending the event, determines a first arrival time for the first user at the event using the first location information, and determines a first schedule for the event using the event scheduling information and the first arrival time; a database, stored to a non-transitory memory, comprising the first location information and the event scheduling information; and a communication module that receives the first location information for the first user and communicates the schedule to an event scheduling device associated with the event.

2 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the communication module receives the first location information from a communication device for the first user, and wherein the communication device determines the first location information using at least one of a network connection to a location services server, a GPS module, and a mapping application.

3 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the communication module further receives second location information for the first user, and wherein the event schedule determining module accesses the second location information, determines a second arrival time for the first user, and updates the first schedule using the using the second arrival time.

4 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the communication module further receives second location information for a second user attending the event, and wherein the event schedule determining module accesses the second location information, determines a second arrival time for the second user at the event using the second location information, and determines a second schedule for the event using the event scheduling information, the first arrival time for the first user, and the second arrival time for the second user.

5 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the first schedule comprises a time to start the event.

6 . The system of claim 5 , wherein the time to start the event is later than a previously scheduled time to start the event in the event scheduling information, and wherein the time to start the event provides an amount of time to allow the first user to arrive at the event.

7 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the first arrival time is for a time after a scheduled time to start the event in the event scheduling information, wherein the first schedule comprises the scheduled time to start the event, and wherein the event schedule determining module determines an offer for at least one of a first showing of a same event after the event and a second showing of a similar event after the event and communicates the offer to the first user.

8 . The system of claim 7 , wherein the event schedule determining module offers to resell at least one ticket for the event purchased by the first user.

9 . The system of claim 7 , wherein the offer further comprises a sale of at least one ticket to at least one of the first showing and the second showing.

10 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the event schedule determining module provides an incentive to the first user if an actual arrival time for the first user is before a scheduled start time for the event in the event scheduling information.

11 . The system of claim 1 , wherein a venue hosts the event and comprises at least one wireless beacon device, and wherein the first user possesses a communication device, and wherein the communication device and the at least one wireless beacon device connect when the communication device is in proximity to the at least one wireless beacon device to generate the first location information for the first user.

12 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the communication module receives the first location information from the at least one wireless beacon.

13 . The system of claim 12 , the communication device and the at least one wireless beacon device connect using one of near field communication, radio communication, infrared communication, Bluetooth communication, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) communication, WiFi communication, and LTE Direct communication.

14 . A method comprising:
accessing, by a scheduling module comprising at least one hardware processor, a first schedule for an event at a venue; accessing, by the scheduling module, first attendance information for a first user attending the event at the venue; processing, by the scheduling module, the first attendance information to determine a first arrival time for the first user at the venue; processing, by the scheduling module, the first arrival time with the first schedule to determine a second schedule for the event; and communicating, via a communication module, the second schedule to a scheduling device at the event.

15 . The method of claim 14 further comprising:
providing, via a communication module, a benefit to at least one other user if the at least one other user is located at the event at a start time for the event in the first schedule.

16 . The method of claim 15 , wherein the benefit comprises at least one of a preshow for the event, a discount for a purchase at the venue, at least one additional ticket to one of the venue and a related event, and

17 . The method of claim 14 , wherein the first attendance information comprises a first playlist for the event entered by the first user, and wherein the second schedule comprises an event playlist determined using the first playlist.

18 . The method of claim 17 , wherein prior to the processing, by the scheduling module, the first arrival time with the first schedule to determine the second schedule, the method further comprises:
accessing second attendance information for a second user attended the event at the venue, wherein the second attendance information comprises a second playlist for the event entered by the second user; wherein the event playlist is further determined using the second playlist.

19 . The method of claim 18 , wherein the event playlist comprises items from the second playlist before items from the first playlist if the first arrival time for the first user is after a second arrival time for the second user.

20 . A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising executable modules which, in response to execution by a computer system, cause the computer system to perform a method comprising:
accessing, by a scheduling module comprising at least one hardware processor, a first schedule for an event at a venue; accessing, by the scheduling module, arrival information for a user at the venue; processing, by the scheduling module, the arrival information to determine an arrival time for the user at the venue; processing, by the scheduling module, the arrival time with the first schedule to determine a second schedule for the event; and communicating, via a communication module, the second schedule to a scheduling device at the event.

Assignees

• Paypal Inc

Inventors

• Luk Bryant Genepang
• Khalil Syed Muasir
• Dides Emil
• He Robert

Classifications

• G06Q10/1093 Primary

  Calendar-based scheduling for persons or groups · CPC title

• G06Q10/1095 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04W40/28

  for reactive routing · CPC title