Patent ID: 8444491

Claim:
A system comprising: a processor-implemented game networking system configured to: generate an incentive reward that is to be provided to at least one member of a group of users of a game networking system based on the group exercising a level of influence over a physical location during a time period that is greater than a level of influence of an additional group of users over the physical location during the time period; determine that a number of members of the group performed at least one of a plurality of location-based actions at the physical location during the time period; determine that a number of members of the additional group performed at least one of the plurality of location-based actions at the physical location during the time period; communicate a plurality of updates to data pertaining to the level of influence that the group exercises over the physical location during the time period in comparison to the level of influence that the additional group exercises over the physical location during the time period, the data including a history of tasks that each member of the group and each member of the additional group performed at the location, each of the tasks corresponding to one of the plurality of location-based actions, the plurality of updates being viewable by the at least one member of the group of users via a client system of the at least one member of the group of users; determine that the group exercised the level of influence over the physical location during the time period, wherein the determining that the group exercised the level of influence over the location during the time period is based on the number of the members of the group being greater than the number of members of the additional group; and providing the incentive reward to the at least one member of the group based on the determining that the level of influence exercised by the group is greater than the level of influence of the additional group over the physical location during the time period.