Patent Document ID: 8209241
Application ID: 12983014

Base Claim:
1. A method of illustrating locations of available tickets in an event venue, comprising: presenting, by a web browser of a client computing device, a filter module for allowing a user to perform a search of tickets listed for sale by a ticket service hosted by a web site; accepting, at the filter module, event criteria for at least one ticket and at least one event; accepting, at the filter module, price criteria for the at least one ticket and the at least one event; sending the request for filtering tickets by criteria to the ticket service; receiving, from the ticket service, data representing a filtered ticket set meeting the event criteria and the price criteria from the ticket service; displaying a ticket listing corresponding to tickets of the filtered ticket set located in a plurality of sections of an event venue; displaying, by the web browser, an interactive graphics-based event venue map for the event venue illustrating locations of sections having tickets of the filtered ticket set; accepting, at the interactive graphics-based event venue map, a particular section of interest in response to the user selecting the particular section from the interactive graphics-based event venue map; accepting, at the interactive graphics-based event venue map, a particular section of interest; and displaying ticket information in a web browsing language corresponding to the tickets of the filtered ticket set located in the particular section of interest as an overlay on the particular section of interest on the interactive graphics-based event venue map.

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Claim 9:
9. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: displaying graphics-based event venue map information that is not interactive showing an exact location corresponding to an exact ticket prior to purchase of the exact ticket.