Patent ID: 8175926

Claim:
A computer implemented method comprising: in response to a request of a user employed by an organization for tickets to an event, searching, via a computing device, a database for available tickets of a set of tickets purchased prior in time by a procuring organization; displaying, via the computing device, to the user information about the available tickets; in response to identifying the available tickets, allowing, via the computing device, the user employed by the organization to book the available tickets, the allowing comprising determining that a usage value of the available tickets internal to the organization is equal to or greater than a monetary value of the available tickets external to the organization, the usage value internal to the organization being calculated based at least in part on classification of a guest to accompany the user in use of the available tickets; when there are no available tickets, authorizing the user to purchase new tickets; and when the monetary value of the available tickets external to the organization is greater than the usage value internal to the organization, offloading the available tickets on an open market external to the organization.