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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 2022
Filed:
May. 13, 2020
Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd., Miami, FL (US);
Nicholas Weir, Miami, FL (US);
Steven M. Greenberg, Boynton Beach, FL (US);
Royal Caribbean Cruises LTD., Miami, FL (US);
Abstract
Socially distant seating arrangement management includes loading a seating chart for a seating area of an event venue into memory of a computer, setting both a social distancing parameter and also a seat width parameter for seats in the seating area and computing a number of successive seats with a combined width according to the seat width parameter minimally exceeding the social distancing parameter. The method further includes enabling for selection in a user interface to the seating chart, available ones of the seats in a selected row of the seating area that are separated from one another by the computed number of the seats and disabling from selection in the user interface, the seats separating the available ones of the seats. Finally, the method includes recording in the memory of the computer, different selections in the seating chart by different end users of the available ones of the seats.