Nextdoor Co., Ltd

Nextdoor, Inc.

Paul Howe

Ryan Sims

Rishi Mukhopadhyay

Morgan Hallmon

Tatyana Mamut

David Wiesen

Daniel Joseph Clancy

Nirav N Tolia

Sean Christopher Bromage

Aaron Webber

Kevin Liu

Daniel Masquelier

A method and apparatus for creation and storage of online community groups is provided. In various implementations, digital communication data is stored representing interactions between users as part of an online community platform. In various implementations, a user of the online community platform indicates the desire to create a group comprising digital accounts which have interacted with the user as indicated by the digital communication data. In various implementations, a digital communication group is created comprising digital accounts specifically chosen by a user of an online community platform.

Automatic formation of social networking groups based on threads

Automatic formation of social networking group based on thread

Users of social networking computer systems provide location information that is transformed into geo-coded coordinates specifying user locations. Providers of content, such as messages or documents, also participate in the social networking system and use drawing tools or provide data files that define one or more geographical areas or regions of a map, which may define a larger geographical area that encompasses the users of the social networking system. Data specifying the areas is stored. The content providers create one or more messages and associate each of the one or more messages with one or more of the areas. The users communicate requests for messages to the social networking system; in response, the system associates the user location data with the stored areas and messages and returns only those messages that have been associated with the particular areas in which the users are located. As a result, users receive only messages for their areas, and only messages that the content providers have designated as intended for or relevant to their areas.

Providing content to a geographically constrained set of recipients

A system and method for generating a recommendation counter for a business entity based on social networking interactions is provided. In an embodiment, a social networking server provides an interface for users of social networking accounts to request recommendations for business entities and to reply to the requests with recommendations. When the social networking server computer receives a recommendation for a particular business entity, the social networking server computer determines whether the recommending social networking account has recommended the particular business entity in the past. In response to determining that the social networking account has not recommended the particular business entity in the past, the social networking server computer increments a recommendation counter for the particular business entity.

Generating and displaying recommendation counters based on recommendation dialogue captured through a social network and constrained by geographic regions of the recommenders

Users of social networking computer systems provide location information that is transformed into geo-coded coordinates specifying user locations. Providers of content, such as messages or documents, also participate in the social networking system and use drawing tools or provide data files that define one or more geographical areas or regions of a map, which may define a larger geographical area that encompasses the users of the social networking system. Data specifying the areas is stored. The content providers create one or more messages and associate each of the one or more messages with one or more of the areas. The users communicate requests for messages to the social networking system; in response, the system associates the user location data with the stored areas and messages, and returns only those messages that have been associated with the particular areas in which the users are located. As a result, users receive only messages for their areas, and only messages that the content providers have designated as intended for or relevant to their areas.

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Mill Valley, CA, United States of America

Paul Howe