Patent ID: 8668568

Claim:
A method of processing location data for a computer terminal, the method comprising: receiving at a computer system from a first mobile computer terminal and/or from a communication system in communication with the first mobile computer terminal, global positioning satellite and/or cellular network location data, wherein the location data corresponds to the approximate location of the first mobile computer terminal; based at least in part on the location data, determining if the first mobile computer terminal is within a first area, wherein presence in the first area is needed in order to be authorized to access a first service, wherein the first service relates to acquisition of a first ticket for a sporting event or a concert event at a venue; and at least partly in response to failing to determine that the first mobile computer terminal is in the first area, transmitting a map to the first mobile computer terminal, the map including at least the first area, and inhibiting the acquisition of the first ticket for the event at the venue from the first mobile computer terminal; determining if a changed location of the first mobile computer terminal is within the first area; at least partly in response to determining that the changed location of the first mobile computer terminal is within the first area, enabling an acquisition of the first ticket for the event and inhibiting the acquisition of more than a predetermined quantity of tickets for the event by a user of the first mobile computer terminal.