JP7276441B2 - Seating program, device and method - Google Patents

Description

The disclosed technology relates to a seating arrangement program, a seating arrangement device, and a seating arrangement method.

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, when selling tickets for sports events, concerts, and public transportation, a system executes seating arrangement processing for allocating the desired number of seats to a ticket purchaser.

For example, there has been proposed a seat allocation system that allocates seats in consideration of the requests and convenience of customers who make reservations. Regarding the seat allocation of transportation, this system does not determine the seat position in detail at the time of seat reservation. Optimize allocation. The system then determines the seat position just before departure and communicates with each reserved passenger.

A method has also been proposed for quickly and accurately providing a user with a better seat from among the remaining available seats. In this method, the server receives a client-uploaded request to reserve a seat at the current location and queries a preconfigured seat information database to determine priority information corresponding to the remaining seats at the current location. . Also, in this method, each time a seat is selected, a seat information database is built according to the selection order information of each seat in the past record of seat selection, and the information of each seat at the current location and the corresponding priority information is stored in the seat information database. The method also determines recommended seat information from the remaining seats at the current location according to priority information corresponding to the remaining seats, and returns the recommended seat information to the client.

In addition, a seat allocation device has been proposed that satisfies the customer's request by increasing opportunities for customers with two or more customers to purchase consecutive seats, and also satisfies the operator's request by realizing efficient seat allocation. . This device is a face-to-face seat ticket issuing device, and is equipped with an operator-side image display device and a touch panel device on the operator side for ticket issuing processing and a customer side image display device and a touch panel device for displaying vacant seat information on the customer side. Enter seats. The seat information processing device generates vacant seat information for display indicating that a predetermined vacant seat is not available for sale according to the number of desired seats from the vacant seat information in the seat database, and displays the vacant seat information for display on the customer side image display device. do.

JP-A-2000-76352 Japanese Patent Publication No. 2018-504696 JP 2008-129963 A

In ticket sales, there is a method of selling tickets for seats designated by ticket purchasers. However, promoters and the like who sell tickets have a need to sell tickets in consideration of the case where the show is televised.

As one aspect, the disclosed technology aims to determine seat allocation so that reserved seats are dispersed.

As one aspect, the disclosed technology accepts a ticket purchase request specifying a zone to which a desired seat belongs, and responds to the purchase request so that the reserved seats are distributed within the specified zone. Determine your seat.

As one aspect, it has the effect that the seat allocation can be determined so that the reserved seats are dispersed.

3 is a functional block diagram of the seating arrangement device according to the embodiment; FIG. It is a figure which shows an example of seat DB. FIG. 2 is a diagram for explaining zones and blocks; FIG. It is a figure which shows an example of reservation DB. FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining seating arrangement rules; It is a figure which shows an example of seating arrangement rule DB. FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining block selection; FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining seat allocation according to seat allocation rules; FIG. 10 is a diagram for explaining processing for moving and allocating reserved seats that can be moved; FIG. FIG. 10 is a diagram for explaining processing for moving and allocating reserved seats that can be moved; FIG. FIG. 10 is a diagram for explaining processing for moving and allocating reserved seats that can be moved; FIG. FIG. 10 is a diagram for explaining processing for moving and allocating reserved seats that can be moved; FIG. It is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of a computer that functions as a seating arrangement device according to the present embodiment. It is a flow chart which shows an example of preliminary processing. It is a flowchart which shows an example of a seating arrangement process. It is a flowchart which shows an example of variable seating arrangement processing.

An example of an embodiment according to technology disclosed herein will be described below with reference to the drawings.

As shown in FIG. 1 , the seating arrangement device 10 functionally includes a management section 12 , a reception section 14 and a determination section 16 . A seat DB (database) 22, a reservation DB 24, and a seating arrangement rule DB 26 are stored in a predetermined storage area. Note that the seating arrangement device 10 is an example of an information processing device of technology disclosed herein.

The seat DB 22 stores management information for each seat. FIG. 2 shows an example of the seat DB 22. As shown in FIG. In the example of FIG. 2, each row (each record) of the seat DB 22 corresponds to management information for each seat. The seat management information includes information such as "seat number", "zone", "block", "seat status", and "reservation ID" that uniquely identify the arrangement of the seat.

Zones and blocks will now be described. In this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 3, the entire seating area 70 of the venue where the event for which tickets are sold is held is divided into a plurality of zones 72 (dotted rectangles in FIG. 3), and each zone 72 is divided into a plurality of blocks 74 (rectangles of dashed-dotted lines in FIG. 3). Therefore, each seat 76 (circled in FIG. 3) belongs to any block 74 in any zone 72 .

Further, the identification information of the zone and block to which each seat belongs is stored in the "zone" and "block" of the seat DB 22 described above.

The zone 72 can be divided based on the type of seat, for example, SS seats, A seats, B seats, etc. for a stage, etc., or outfield, infield, etc. for a baseball game ticket. In addition, the block 74 can be divided into a group of seats that can be regarded as having the same rough position in the zone, such as front, rear, end, center, etc., and conditions such as few steps and proximity to the toilet. Blocks 74 may also be separated by passages in zone 72 . In the present embodiment, although the details will be described later, seating arrangement processing is performed in units of blocks. As a result, the processing load can be reduced as compared with the case where seat allocation processing is performed for the entire seat area 70 .

"Seat status" is information indicating the reservation status of each seat. The seat status includes each status of "vacant seat", "confirmed", "movable", and "unallocated seat". "Vacant seat" indicates that the corresponding seat can be reserved. "Confirmed" indicates that the seat is reserved by a purchase request specifying a seat. "Moveable" indicates that the seat is reserved by a purchase request specifying a zone. "Seats not available" refers to seats that are not subject to ticket sales, such as seats that are not sold due to the layout of the venue or the circumstances of the promoter, seats that are outsourced for sales, seats that are reserved for invitations or groups, etc. indicates Note that "confirmed" and "not available for seating" are examples of the "status indicating unavailable seating" of the disclosed technique. In addition, the status of "seats unavailable" may be managed with different statuses depending on factors such as the reasons why seats cannot be assigned.

"Reservation ID" is identification information of a purchase request that is the basis for reserving the seat. Since one reservation ID is assigned to one purchase request, the same reservation ID is assigned to each of a plurality of seats reserved by a purchase request that wishes to purchase multiple seats in a row. be done.

Management information for each purchase request is stored in the reservation DB 24 . FIG. 4 shows an example of the reservation DB 24. As shown in FIG. In the example of FIG. 4, each row (each record) of the reservation DB 24 corresponds to management information for each purchase request. The management information of the purchase request includes a "reservation ID", a "user ID" that is identification information of the user (purchaser) who made the purchase request, and a "reservation number" that indicates the number of tickets to be purchased, that is, the number of consecutive seats. , "reservation status", etc.

"Reservation status" is information indicating the reservation status for each purchase request. The reservation status includes "Reserved", which indicates that the seat corresponding to the purchase request has been reserved, "Paid", which indicates that the ticket price for the reserved seat has been paid, and the purchase request has been canceled. "Cancel" and the like are included to indicate the state of being canceled. In addition, a status such as "temporary reservation" may be provided to indicate a state in which a seat is provisionally secured during purchase request processing.

The seat allocation rule DB 26 stores seat allocation rules indicating in what order the seats corresponding to the purchase request are to be allocated in response to the ticket purchase request specifying the zone. In this embodiment, although the details will be described later, seats are arranged so that the reserved seats are distributed within the designated zone. As a seating arrangement rule for realizing such a seating arrangement, for example, as shown in FIG. It is possible to determine the seat allocation direction that indicates whether the seats will be allocated in .

As described above, the row order of seats can be determined so that the reserved seats are distributed within the zone so that the seats are arranged at predetermined intervals. In the example of FIG. 5, the row order is determined so that the seats are arranged every other row.

As for the direction of seat allocation, it is possible to define a unidirectional direction in which seats are allocated in order from the starting point in a single direction, and a bidirectional direction in which seats are allocated alternately in two directions to the left and right from the starting point. For example, as the single direction, a single direction from the left end to the right end as in the third row shown in FIG. 5, and a single direction from the right end to the left end as in the fourth row shown in FIG. 5 can be defined. . In addition, as for the two directions, two directions are defined, such as the first row shown in FIG. can be kept

FIG. 6 shows an example of the seating arrangement rule DB 26. As shown in FIG. In the example of FIG. 6, the seating arrangement rule DB 26 stores "block" which is a unit for determining the seating arrangement, "row number" within the block, "seating arrangement", and "seating direction". By predetermining the seat allocation rules in this way, the ticket sales operator can manually control the suspension and release of seat sales while monitoring the ticket sales situation so that the reserved seats are dispersed. Operation load is reduced compared to the case.

The management unit 12 receives an input of the seat master and stores it in the seat DB 22 . The seat master includes information such as the layout of the venue including seat numbers, zone and block divisions, and seats that cannot be allocated. The management unit 12 stores the “seat number”, “zone” and “block” in the seat DB 22 for each seat based on the received seat master. In addition, the management unit 12 sets the "seat status" to "unallocated" for seats that cannot be allocated, and sets the "seat status" to "vacant" as an initial value for other seats. do.

In addition, the management unit 12 receives input of seating arrangement rules and stores them in the seating arrangement rule DB 26 .

The receiving unit 14 receives a purchase request from a ticket purchaser, assigns a reservation ID to the received purchase request, stores it in the reservation DB 24 , and passes it to the determination unit 16 .

The purchase request is transmitted from the information processing device used by the purchaser to the seat allocation device 10 via, for example, a ticket sales site. The purchase request includes user ID, designation of seat or zone, and information on the number of purchased tickets. Seat designation is performed, for example, by displaying a seat map of the entire venue in a state where reservable seats, that is, vacant seats can be selected, on the display of the information processing device used by the purchaser, and allowing the purchaser to select the desired seat from the vacant seats. It is done by letting The designation of the zone is performed, for example, by having the purchaser select from a zone map of the entire venue or a list of zones from which any zone can be selected.

If the purchase request received from the reception unit 14 is a purchase request specifying a seat, the determination unit 16 changes the seat status of the specified seat to "confirmed" in the seat DB 22 and confirms the reservation in the reservation DB 24. Change the status to "Reserved".

In addition, in the case of a purchase request specifying a zone, the determining unit 16 selects blocks in descending order of priority among the blocks included in the specified zone, and selects a seat corresponding to the purchase request within the selected block. decide. For example, as shown in FIG. 7, the greater the number of vacant seats (number of remaining seats) in a block, the higher the priority of that block. As a result, reserved seats can be distributed within the zone. In addition, by selecting a block with a large number of remaining seats, the possibility of securing a seat corresponding to the purchase request increases, so seats can be allocated efficiently.

The determining unit 16 determines the seat corresponding to the purchase request in the selected block based on the seating arrangement rule stored in the seating arrangement rule DB 26 and the positional relationship with reserved seats. As described above, in the present embodiment, since the seating arrangement rule is defined to allocate seats in every predetermined row, the seats corresponding to the purchase request are determined so that the reserved seats are distributed within the designated zone. can do.

For example, assume that a purchase request for two tickets has been accepted when the seating order is determined as shown in FIG. In this case, the determining unit 16 searches for vacant seats for two consecutive seats from the first row in which the row order is 1. In the example of FIG. 8, since there are no vacant seats for two consecutive seats in the first row, the determining unit 16 searches for vacant seats from the next row. The determination unit 16 searches for a vacant seat from the third row with a row order of 2, not from the second row where there are two vacant seats. In the third row, there are two consecutive vacant seats, and there are a plurality of options for the seating arrangement pattern. take a seat Here, assuming that the seating direction for the third row is set to be unidirectional from left to right, the determination unit 16 selects the seats surrounded by the dashed lines shown in FIG. 8 as the seats corresponding to the purchase request. decide.

When determining the seat corresponding to the purchase request specifying the zone, the determination unit 16 changes the seat status of the determined seat to "movable" in the seat DB 22, and changes the reservation status of the reservation DB 24 to "reserved". change.

In the case of a purchase request requesting purchase of multiple consecutive tickets, and there is no vacant seat group in the block selected from the designated zone that can be allocated with the number of consecutive seats purchased. , the determining unit 16 cannot allocate seats according to the seating rules. In this case, the determination unit 16 determines whether or not it is possible to change the seat allocation of other reserved seats and to allocate the seats corresponding to the purchase request for consecutive seats. The seats whose seat allocation can be changed are reserved seats with a seat status of "movable", that is, seats reserved in response to a request to purchase a ticket specifying a zone.

A specific description will be given by taking as an example a purchase request for five consecutive seats. As shown in FIG. 9, when there are no vacant seats for five consecutive seats, the determination unit 16 selects the row with the largest number of consecutive vacant seats (the row surrounded by the dashed line in FIG. 9). The greater the number of consecutive vacant seats, the higher the possibility that a seat corresponding to the purchase request can be secured. Therefore, by selecting the row with the largest number of consecutive vacant seats, it is possible to allocate seats efficiently.

The determination unit 16 refers to the seat DB 22 to determine whether or not the seat status of the seat adjacent to the vacant seat group in the selected row is "movable". In the case of "movable", the determination unit 16 acquires the reservation ID of the seat adjacent to the vacant seat group in the selected row from the seat DB 22, and acquires the "number of reservations" corresponding to the acquired reservation ID in the reservation DB 24. . Then, the determination unit 16 combines the number of vacant seats in the selected row and the acquired number of reservations to determine whether it is possible to secure seats for the number of consecutive seats in the purchase request (here, for five consecutive seats). judge. If it can be secured, the determining unit 16 determines the seats adjacent to the vacant seat group in the selected row and the seat group having the same reservation ID as that seat (three seats in the example of FIG. 9) as seats to be moved.

In addition, it is assumed that seats with the seat status of "movable" are adjacent to both sides of the vacant seat group of the selected row, and in either case, it is possible to secure seats for the number of consecutive seats specified in the purchase request. In this case, the determining unit 16 may determine one of the seats to be moved according to a predetermined rule, such as selecting a seat group with a small number of consecutive seats as the seat to be moved. Also, if it is possible to secure seats for the number of consecutive seats in the purchase request by combining the adjacent seat groups, any of the adjacent seat groups may be determined as seats to be moved.

The determining unit 16 searches for a group of vacant seats corresponding to the number of consecutive seats of the seat to be moved as the destination of the seat to be moved. As shown in FIG. 10 , when there are a plurality of vacant seat groups (seat groups surrounded by dashed lines in FIG. 10 ) that are candidates for the movement destination of the three consecutive seats, the determining unit 16 determines the seat allocation. The destination is determined from the candidates for the destination according to the rule. In the example of FIG. 10, since there are candidates for the destination in the first row and the third row, the determination unit 16 moves the vacant seats in the first row as shown in FIG. 11 according to the seating arrangement rule. First, the seat to be moved is moved.

Specifically, in the seat DB 22, the determining unit 16 changes the seat status of the seat to be moved to "empty seat" and clears the "reservation ID" column. Further, in the seat DB 22, the determination unit 16 changes the seat status of the destination seat group to "movable", and changes the reservation ID stored in the "reservation ID" column of the destination seat to " "Reservation ID" column. As a result, the vacant seat group surrounded by the dashed line in FIG. 12 can be allocated as seats corresponding to the purchase request.

The seating arrangement device 10 can be realized by a computer 40 shown in FIG. 13, for example. The computer 40 includes a CPU (Central Processing Unit) 41 , a memory 42 as a temporary storage area, and a nonvolatile storage section 43 . The computer 40 also includes an input/output device 44 such as an input unit and a display unit, and an R/W (Read/Write) unit 45 that controls reading and writing of data to and from a storage medium 49 . The computer 40 also has a communication I/F (Interface) 46 connected to a network such as the Internet. The CPU 41 , memory 42 , storage unit 43 , input/output device 44 , R/W unit 45 and communication I/F 46 are connected to each other via bus 47 .

The storage unit 43 can be realized by a HDD (Hard Disk Drive), SSD (Solid State Drive), flash memory, or the like. A storage unit 43 as a storage medium stores a seating arrangement program 50 for causing the computer 40 to function as the seating arrangement device 10 . The seating arrangement program 50 has a management process 52 , a reception process 54 and a decision process 56 . The storage unit 43 also has an information storage area 60 in which information constituting each of the seat DB 22, the reservation DB 24, and the seating arrangement rule DB 26 is stored.

The CPU 41 reads out the seating arrangement program 50 from the storage unit 43, develops it in the memory 42, and sequentially executes the processes of the seating arrangement program 50. FIG. The CPU 41 operates as the management unit 12 shown in FIG. 1 by executing the management process 52 . Further, the CPU 41 operates as the reception unit 14 shown in FIG. 1 by executing the reception process 54 . Further, the CPU 41 operates as the determination unit 16 shown in FIG. 1 by executing the determination process 56 . The CPU 41 also reads information from the information storage area 60 and develops each of the seat DB 22 , the reservation DB 24 and the seating arrangement rule DB 26 in the memory 42 . As a result, the computer 40 executing the seat allocation program 50 functions as the seat allocation device 10 . Note that the CPU 41 that executes the program is hardware.

The functions realized by the seating arrangement program 50 can also be realized by, for example, a semiconductor integrated circuit, more specifically an ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) or the like.

Next, the operation of the seat allocation device 10 according to this embodiment will be described. First, when a seat master and a seating arrangement rule are input to the seating arrangement device 10, the seating arrangement device 10 executes the pre-processing shown in FIG. When a purchase request is input to the seat allocation device 10, the seat allocation processing shown in FIG. 15 is executed in the seat allocation device 10. FIG. Note that the seating arrangement processing is an example of the seating arrangement method of the technology disclosed herein.

First, the pre-processing shown in FIG. 14 will be described.

In step S12, the management unit 12 receives the input seat master data, and stores the "seat number" in the seat DB 22 for each seat based on the received seat master data.

Next, in step S14, the management unit 12 stores the identification information of the zone and block to which each seat belongs in the "zone" and "block" columns corresponding to the "seat number" of the seat DB 22 based on the seat master. do.

Next, in step S16, the management unit 12 sets the "seat status" of the corresponding seat to "not available for seating" in the seat DB 22 based on the information on the non-assigned seats included in the seat master.

Next, in step S18, the management unit 12 sets the "seat status" to "vacant" for the remaining seats other than the seats for which the "seat status" was set in step S16.

Next, in step S20, the management unit 12 receives the input seating arrangement rule, stores it in the seating arrangement rule DB 26, and the pre-processing ends.

Next, the seating arrangement processing shown in FIG. 15 will be described.

In step S<b>32 , the reception unit 14 receives a purchase request from the ticket purchaser, assigns a reservation ID to the received purchase request, stores the reservation ID in the reservation DB 24 , and passes it to the determination unit 16 . Then, the determination unit 16 determines whether the delivered purchase request is a purchase request specifying a seat or a purchase request specifying a zone. If the purchase request specifies a seat, the process proceeds to step S34, and if the purchase request specifies a zone, the process proceeds to step S36.

In step S34, the determination unit 16 changes the seat status of the seat specified by the purchase request to "confirmed" in the seat DB 22, and changes the reservation status of the reservation DB 24 to "reserved". finish.

On the other hand, in step S36, the determination unit 16 selects a block with a high priority from among the blocks included in the zone designated by the purchase request in descending order of the number of vacant seats (number of remaining seats) in the block. .

Next, in step S38, the determining unit 16 searches for a group of vacant seats that can accommodate the number of consecutive seats specified in the purchase request.

Next, in step S40, the determination unit 16 determines whether or not the seat corresponding to the purchase request can be allocated based on whether or not the vacant seat group could be searched in step S38. If the seat can be assigned, the process proceeds to step S42, and if the seat cannot be assigned, the process proceeds to step S50.

In step S42, the determination unit 16 determines the searched vacant seat group as the seat corresponding to the purchase request. If there are a plurality of searched vacant seat groups, the determining unit 16 purchases seats so that the reserved seats are distributed within the designated zone based on the seating arrangement rule stored in the seating arrangement rule DB 26. Determine the seat corresponding to the request.

Next, in step S44, the determination unit 16 changes the seat status of the seat determined in step S42 to "movable" in the seat DB 22, and changes the reservation status of the reservation DB 24 to "reserved", The seat allocation process ends.

In step S50, the variable seating arrangement process shown in FIG. 16 is executed.

In step S52, the determination unit 16 selects the row with the largest number of consecutive vacant seats in the block selected in step S36.

Next, in step S54, the determination unit 16 determines that the seat status of the seats adjacent to the vacant seat group in the selected row is "movable", and the adjacent seats have "number of reservations (number of consecutive seats)"; In combination with the number of vacant seats in the selected row, it is determined whether or not seats for the number of consecutive seats in the purchase request can be secured. If it can be secured, the process moves to step S56, and if it cannot be secured, the process moves to step S64.

In step S56, the determination unit 16 determines adjacent seats and a group of seats having the same reservation ID as the adjacent seats as the seats to be moved. to explore.

Next, in step S58, the determination unit 16 determines whether or not there is a vacant seat group to which the movement target seat can be moved as a result of the search in step S56. If it exists, the process proceeds to step S60, and if not, the process proceeds to step S64.

In step S60, when there are a plurality of candidates for the destination of the seat to be moved, the determining unit 16 determines the destination from among the candidates for the destination according to the seating arrangement rule. Then, in the seat DB 22, the determination unit 16 changes the seat status of the seat to be moved to "empty seat" and clears the "reservation ID" column. In the seat DB 22, the determination unit 16 also changes the seat status of the destination seat group to "movable", and changes the reservation ID stored in the "reservation ID" column of the seat to be moved to the destination seat. stored in the "reservation ID" column of Thereby, the determining unit 16 moves the moving target candidate to the moving destination.

Next, at step S62, the determination unit 16 determines the seat corresponding to the purchase request from the vacant seat group created in the row selected at step S52 by moving the seat to be moved. Return to the shown seating arrangement processing.

On the other hand, in step S64, the determination unit 16 determines whether or not there is still a next selectable column in the block selected in step S36. If there is a next row, the process returns to step S52, the row with the largest number of consecutive vacant seats is selected from among the selectable rows, and the processing from step S54 onwards is repeated. If there is no selectable column, the process proceeds to step S66.

In step S66, the determining unit 16 determines whether or not the next selectable block still exists in the zone specified by the purchase request. If there is a next block, return to step S36 in FIG. 15, select the block with the highest priority (the largest number of remaining seats) from among the selectable blocks, and repeat the processing from step S38 onwards. . If there is no selectable block, the process proceeds to step S68.

In step S68, the determination unit 16 returns a message to the effect that the seat cannot be secured in the zone designated by the purchase request and the ticket cannot be purchased to the sender of the purchase request, and performs variable seat allocation processing and allocation. Seat processing ends.

As described above, when the seat allocation device according to the present embodiment receives a ticket purchase request specifying a zone to which a desired seat belongs, the reserved seats are distributed within the specified zone. A seat corresponding to the purchase request is determined according to the seating arrangement rule. As a result, according to the seat allocation device according to the present embodiment, it is possible to determine the seat allocation so as to avoid a state in which a specific group of seats is left unoccupied, and to improve the appearance of the degree of occupancy of the seats. . For example, media measures can be used to make it look like seats are occupied.

In addition, the seating arrangement apparatus according to the present embodiment can allocate reserved seats in response to a ticket purchase request with a designated zone, if it is not possible to allocate seats in response to a purchase request for consecutive seats according to the above-described seating arrangement rule. Change the seats and allocate seats corresponding to the purchase request for consecutive seats. As a result, it is possible to flexibly allocate seats, reduce the number of cases where seats cannot be allocated in response to purchase requests for consecutive seats, and improve the ticket sales rate. In addition, even if the seat is not pinpointed, the purchaser who thinks that it is sufficient to secure the seat in the desired zone can improve the probability that the ticket in the desired zone can be secured, thereby improving the customer's satisfaction.

In the above embodiment, a case has been described in which, when seats cannot be assigned according to the seat assignment rules, seats with the seat status of "movable" are moved to assign seats. In this case, if the group of vacant seats to which the seat to be moved cannot be secured, the seat with the seat status of "movable" can be moved to further secure the destination of the seat to be moved. good.

Further, in the above embodiment, in addition to the seat status and reservation status, the ticket status indicating the status of the ticket may also be managed. For example, statuses such as "unissued" indicating that the ticket has not been issued, "issued" indicating that the seat has been confirmed and issued, and "ticketed" indicate that the ticket has been entered. be able to.

Further, in the above-described embodiment, the mode in which the seating arrangement program is pre-stored (installed) in the storage unit has been described, but the present invention is not limited to this. The program according to the technology disclosed herein can also be provided in a form stored in a storage medium such as a CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, USB memory, or the like.

10 Seat allocation device 12 Management unit 14 Reception unit 16 Decision unit 22 Seat DB
24 Reservation DB
26 Seating rule DB
40 computer 41 CPU
42 memory 43 storage unit 49 storage medium 50 seating arrangement program 70 entire seating area 72 zone 74 block 76 seat

Claims (9)

Receive a request to purchase a ticket specifying the zone to which the desired seat belongs,
A seat allocation program for causing a computer to execute processing including determining seats corresponding to the purchase request so that reserved seats are distributed within the designated zone,
If the purchase request is a purchase request for a ticket with multiple seats and there is no vacant seat group in which the multiple seats can be arranged in the specified zone, the zone is selected from among the reserved seats. Changing the seat arrangement of the seats reserved in response to the specified ticket purchase request, and determining the seats corresponding to the purchase request for consecutive seats.
seating program. If there is no vacant seat group to which the above-mentioned consecutive seats can be allocated, a seat adjacent to the seat to which the maximum number of consecutive seats can be allocated from the vacant seat group, and in response to a ticket purchase request specifying the above-mentioned zone 2. The seat allocation program according to claim 1 , wherein the seat allocation of reserved seats is changed. 3. The seat allocation program according to claim 1 , wherein each of the zones is divided into a plurality of blocks, and among the blocks included in the designated zone, seats are allocated in descending order of the number of vacant seats. The reservation status of each of the seats includes a status indicating that the seat can be reserved, a status indicating that the seat is reserved in response to a ticket purchase request specifying the zone, and a seat that cannot be allocated. 4. The seating allocation program according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein any status including at least the indicated status is assigned and managed. Receiving a purchase request for a ticket for a seat at a venue where a performance is held, specifying the zone to which the desired seat belongs,
Reserved seats are distributed within the designated zone based on a seating arrangement rule that seats are arranged in a predetermined row for multiple rows of seats included in the zone, and on the basis of the positional relationship with the reserved seats. determine a seat corresponding to said purchase request so as to
An arrangement program for causing a computer to execute processing including a reception unit that receives a request to purchase a ticket specifying the zone to which the desired seat belongs;
a determination unit that determines seats corresponding to the purchase request such that reserved seats are distributed within the designated zone ;
When the purchase request is a request to purchase a ticket for consecutive seats and there is no vacant seat group capable of allocating the consecutive seats in the designated zone, Among them, the seat arrangement of the seats reserved in response to the ticket purchase request specifying the zone is changed, and the seats corresponding to the purchase request for the consecutive seats are determined.
Seating device. a reception unit that receives a purchase request for a ticket for a seat at a venue where a performance is held and that designates a zone to which the desired seat belongs;
Reserved seats are distributed within the designated zone based on a seating arrangement rule that seats are arranged in a predetermined row for multiple rows of seats included in the zone, and on the basis of the positional relationship with the reserved seats. a determination unit that determines a seat corresponding to the purchase request,
Seating equipment including. Receive a request to purchase a ticket specifying the zone to which the desired seat belongs,
A seat allocation method in which a computer executes processing including determining seats corresponding to the purchase request so that reserved seats are distributed within the designated zone,
If the purchase request is a purchase request for a ticket with multiple seats and there is no vacant seat group in which the multiple seats can be arranged in the specified zone, the zone is selected from among the reserved seats. Changing the seat arrangement of the seats reserved in response to the specified ticket purchase request, and determining the seats corresponding to the purchase request for consecutive seats.
seating method. Receiving a purchase request for a ticket for a seat at a venue where a performance is held, specifying the zone to which the desired seat belongs,
Reserved seats are distributed within the designated zone based on a seating arrangement rule that seats are arranged in a predetermined row for multiple rows of seats included in the zone, and on the basis of the positional relationship with the reserved seats. determine a seat corresponding to said purchase request so as to
A seating arrangement method in which a computer executes processes including:

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