Patent ID: 9276889
Filing Date: 2016-03-01
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: determining, via a collaboration server, comprising one or more processors executing programmatic instructions stored in a memory, a response to a posting on a communication forum, wherein the communication forum provides a Web site through which a set of forum participants are able to view posts and the Web site provides responses to posts that have been submitted to the communication forum; and determining, via the collaboration server, whether or not to convey an email notification of the response to the posting to a posting user via email based upon a distance threshold established for email notifications, wherein the distance threshold is an integer value, wherein the determining of whether or not to convey an email notification comprises: calculating, via the collaboration server, a current distance between the response and the posting, wherein the current distance represents a quantity of responses to the posting from forum participants that have occurred without a new response from the posting user being submitted to the communication forum; and