Patent ID: 7685009

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for interactively selecting one or more physical locations at a venue by an end user over a wide area network, comprising: transmitting information relating to a set of available individual physical locations at a venue to an application running on a general purpose computer on the wide area network for display to the end user; providing web data to the computer, the web data comprising a graphical user interface that comprises an interactive map representing information relating to the set of available individual physical locations, the web data adapted to provide additional current available physical location information on the set of available individual physical locations in response to the end user placing a mouse indicator over the graphical user interface, wherein the mouse over causes the computer to display the additional current available physical location information indicating physical locations that have not been previously taken; receiving from the end user a selection of one or more available individual physical locations, wherein the selection is based on a mouse click; and accepting over the wide area network from the end user payment information for the one or more available individual physical locations.