Electronic messaging systems

摘要

A computer system for facilitating communications between users that, in various embodiments, is configured for: (A) receiving, from a first user, one or more user watch area attributes; (B) using the one or more user watch area attributes to define a watch area; (C) receiving, from a second user, a message associated with a particular geographical location, wherein the second user has indicated that the message should be associated with the particular geographical location; (D) determining whether the particular geographical location is located within the user watch area; and (E) at least partially in response to determining that the particular geographical location is located within the user watch area, subscribing the first user to a thread of messages that includes the message.

主权项

1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-executable instructions for:
(A) receiving, from a first user, one or more user watch area attributes; (B) using said one or more user watch area attributes to define a watch area; (C) determining whether said first user has entered a shared watch area; (D) at least partially in response to determining that said first user has entered said shared watch area, automatically adding said shared watch area to said user watch area; (E) receiving, from a second user, a message associated with a particular geographical location, wherein said second user has indicated that said message should be associated with said particular geographical location; (F) determining whether said particular geographical location is located within said user watch area; (G) at least partially in response to determining that said particular geographical location is located within said user watch area, subscribing said first user to a thread of messages that includes said message; and (H) decreasing a size of said user watch area in response to determining that a number of message postings within said user watch area is more than a predetermined threshold value.