Patent ID: 7454361

Claim:
A method comprising: communicating on demand, from an information server through a wide area network to a device connected to the wide area network information from a database populated by a multiplicity of entries denoting availability for a venue; transmitting the information to the device to be displayed to the end user, the information including a plurality of available individual seats at the venue such that an end user connected to the wide area network can view the information on a client node unaffiliated with the server, the client node having no dedicated resident ticket vending software that supports selecting a specific individual seat conforming to a need of the end user; providing over the wide area network to the end user the capability of interactively selecting the specific individual seat by clicking the specific seat from among the plurality of individual seats displayed; receiving from the end user a selection of the specific individual seat; adding the specific individual seat to a list of selected seats to be displayed in response to the selection; accepting over the wide area network from the end user a payment for the seat; and returning over the wide area network to the end user verification of the successful completion of the payment, wherein the list is automatically displayed on a current page with the information including the plurality of available individual seats, wherein displaying the information including the plurality of available seats includes providing additional information in response to user interaction with the display of the plurality of seats, and wherein the user interaction is a mouse over of a seating chart.