Patent ID: 8439759

Claim:
A system configured to provide external notifications of events that take place within virtual spaces, the system comprising: one or more processors configured to execute computer program modules, the computer program modules comprising: a user module configured to manage user platform profiles associated with individual users, the user platform profiles include a first platform profile associated a first user, wherein the user platform profiles comprise: information related to virtual game spaces the users participate in such that, responsive to the first user participating in a first virtual game space and a second virtual game space, the first platform profile includes information related to the participation of the first user in the first virtual game space and the second virtual game space; and sets of notification information that facilitate determinations as to whether notifications related to the virtual game spaces should be sent to the users such that the first platform profile includes a first set of notification information that facilitates determinations as to whether notifications related to the first virtual game space and the second virtual game space should be transmitted to the first user; a notification parameter module configured to receive notification parameter sets, wherein the individual notification parameter sets include notification parameters for separate notifications that are to be transmitted to the users, wherein the notification parameter module is configured to receive notification parameter sets for the first virtual game space and for the second virtual game space; a notification determination module configured to determine whether notifications based on the individual notification parameters sets should be generated based on sets of notification information in the user platform profiles such that, responsive to reception of a first notification parameter set for a notification to the first user related to the first virtual game space, the notification determination module determines whether a first notification should be generated in accordance with the first notification parameter set based on the first set of notification information; and a notification response tracking module configured to track responses to notifications sent to the users, and to add the results of such tracking to the user platform profiles, and wherein the notification determination module is further configured such that the information in the first set of notification information on which the determination as to whether the first notification should generated is made includes results of tracking responses of the first user to one or more previous notifications.