Patent ID: 8890872

Claim:
A computer assisted method embodied in a non-transitory computer readable medium, the computer readable medium storing instructions for implementing the computer assisted method, the computer assisted method for generating an interactive digitized map of a venue seating arrangement, comprising: receiving a data source file with a venue seating arrangement, the venue seating arrangement comprising a plurality of sections, each section having a location in the venue seating arrangement, each section further having at least one row; generating from the data source file, a vectorized venue map comprising a plurality of section outlines, each section outline corresponding to a section of the venue seating arrangement; associating section labels with corresponding section outlines in the venue map; for at least one of the section outlines: determining a first edge in the section outline having a midpoint furthest from a venue center point; identifying the determined first edge as a back edge of the section outline; determining locations of the rows within the section outline, based on the number of rows with the section outline and a distance between a front edge of a section outline and the back edge of the section outline; generating, within the section outline, lines indicating the determined locations of the rows within the section; placing within the venue map, the section label for the section outline and a row label for each row within the section outline; and storing in a non-transitory computer storage medium the vectorized venue map in a vectorized representation including the section outlines, section labels, and row labels.