US 12,299,475 B2
Automated queue shutdown for efficient resource management
Justin Manteck, Elgin, IL (US); and Praveena Subrahmanyam, Los Angeles, CA (US)
Assigned to Live Nation Entertainment, Inc., Beverly Hills, CA (US)
Filed by Live Nation Entertainment, Inc., Beverly Hills, CA (US)
Filed on Nov. 20, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/100,287.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/940,046, filed on Nov. 25, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0157631 A1, May 27, 2021
Int. Cl. G06F 9/46 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 9/468 (2013.01) 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method for managing a plurality of digital queues with a plurality of requests for a live event, the computer-implemented method comprising:
operating a digital queue of the plurality of digital queues, the digital queue corresponding to a particular resource associated with the live event, and the digital queue corresponds to the live event, wherein:
the digital queue represents a data structure,
the data structure includes a plurality of queue positions such that each queue position is configured to store data associated with a request of the plurality of requests,
the request is to access an interface that enables a plurality of user devices associated with the plurality of requests to request assignment of a plurality of access rights to the particular resource;
determining that one or more queue positions of the plurality of queue positions of the digital queue are storing the plurality of requests to access the interface, wherein the interface is presented during a predefined time, and the plurality of access rights is available for assignment to the particular resource during the predefined time;
determining that the plurality of requests is not received after a first segment of the predefined time, and
in response to determining that:
the predefined time has passed, and
the digital queue stores the plurality of requests received during the first segment of the predefined time, and
the plurality of requests are not received after the first segment of the predefined time,
initiating a protocol for terminating the digital queue, wherein the protocol triggers:
flushing out the plurality of requests from the one or more queue positions of the digital queue, the flushing out the plurality of requests include providing the plurality of user devices associated with the plurality of requests access to the interface,
inhibiting new requests that are received at the digital queue from being stored in the digital queue during a time duration, the time duration is after the first segment of the predefined time, and
directing a plurality of user devices associated with the new requests to access the interface without being placed in the digital queue.