Patent Document ID: 8775328
Application ID: 14203531

Base Claim:
1. A system of a global neighborhood environment comprising: a computer server of the global neighborhood environment: the computer server including one or more computers having non-transitory instructions stored thereon that when executed cause the one or more computers: to verify that a user lives at a residence associated with a geographic location claimed by the user of the global neighborhood environment using a processor and a memory, to create a social network page of the user once verified, to enable the user to constrain a communication to neighboring users within a geospatial vicinity of the residence of the user based on a neighborhood boundary, to distribute a message in a distance away from the residence of the user based on the neighborhood boundary, to provide an additional privilege as a lead user in the online community of the global neighborhood environment based on at least one of a participation level of the user in the online community and an activity level of the user associated with encouraging neighbors to participate in the online community, and to automatically determine a set of access privileges in the online community associated with each user of the online community by constraining access in private web sites of the online community to neighboring users based on each residence associated with each geographic location claimed by each user of the global neighborhood environment, wherein the one or more computers to permit the user to set a privacy setting associated with a profile data of the user such that a certain information is marked as private and is therefore masked from being visible to neighboring users of the online community in the global neighborhood environment, and wherein the global neighborhood environment formed through the computer server has a domain name of nextdoor having a generic top-level suffix of com.

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Claim 3:
3. The system of the global neighborhood environment of claim 1 : wherein the computer server to permit the user of the global neighborhood environment to mark certain information communicated directly to a particular neighboring user as private, such that privately shared information is shared only with the particular neighboring user and is designated as non-public to other neighboring users of the online community.