Patent AU-2020200618-A1 (AU)
Title: A computer-enabled method, system and computer program for providing an intuitive user interface arranged to create a dynamic floor plan utilisable by an allocation algorithm to perform the task of managing a function or event
Inventor: PETROULAS PETER
IPC: G06Q10/06
Filed: 2020-01-29
Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention provides a computer-enabled method for devising 
a floor plan for a function or event utilising a system arranged to manage a volumetric 
space/time framework that defines one or more spaces in a venue, comprising the steps of: 
- providing a functions user interface in communication with a functions 
module executable on the system, the functions user interface being arranged to 
allow a booking requestor to enter required and optional information regarding a 
plurality of products and services required for the function in the form of function 
information including at least one of a preferred date and time, a type of occasion, 
a desired monetary budget and a plurality of physical items relevant to a function 
or event, whereby the function information includes attributes arranged to define 
spatial attributes utilised in the spatial placement or arrangement of each one of 
the plurality of physical items in the volumetric space/time framework relative to 
each other one of the plurality of physical items, and the spatial placement or 
arrangement of the each one of the plurality of physical items relative to the 
physical boundaries of the one or more spaces, 
- the user interface utilising the attributes to provide an interface that 
allows the booking requestor to graphically arrange representations each one of 
the plurality of physical items on a representation of the one or more spaces to 
create a floor plan, 
- whereby the floor plan and the physical items and function information 
are arranged by the functions module within a space/time framework that 
associates the plurality of physical items and the one or more spaces with the 
availability and cost of one or more of the plurality of products and services 
provided by the venue over a period of time, 
- whereby, utilising the required and optional information, the functions 
module utilises the volumetric space/time framework to select at least a sub-set 
of products and services available for provision according to the attributes, 
whereby the booking requestor can select one or more of the sub-set of products 
and services provided, 
- whereby the selection of the sub-set of products and services is utilised 
with the required and optional information to determine the availability of the 
venue and the availability of the one or more of the plurality of products and 
services based on the function information and the volumetric space/time 
framework, 
- whereby the user interface provides a facility to allow the booking 
requestor to vary the function information and the placement of physical items in 
the one or more spaces iteratively in order to achieve a desired outcome.
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