Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided to streamline event scheduling and facilitate commerce and interpersonal exchanges by providing and scheduling related events in user-customized zones in a geographic region. An automated event scheduling system obtains a geographic region, provides a zone request that specifies the geographic region to a remote user device, receives user-provided parameters from the remote user device, and divides the geographic region into zones based on the user-provided parameters. The automated event scheduling system can then provide a set of zone assignments that assigns the zones to the time slots, and transmits the set of zone assignments to the remote user device, which activates a scheduling client running on the remote user device to display, via a user interface, the set of zone assignments and enable a modification of the set of zone assignments.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided to streamline event scheduling and facilitate commerce and interpersonal exchanges by scheduling events in predefined time slots based on geographic locations of the events' venues. An automated event scheduling system schedules related events based on geographic locations of the events' venues, by partitioning a geographic region into discrete zones, assigning one or more time slots to each of the zones, and scheduling events with venues located in each zone to transpire during the time slots assigned to that zone.