StubHub granted U.S. patents for seat mapping

I don't know why it takes so long to grant a patent when all they do is slide it under the rubber stamp machine.

Wow. Where I live, since at least 2005, I can choose the seats in a movie theatre when buying a ticket (even online now). Seems like a lot of prior art.

How is this substantially new? This type of article makes the US patent system laughable.

It seems any unique process can be patented.