Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Automatically providing a communication based on location information for a user of a social networking system
- Patent Title (中): 基于社交网络系统的用户的位置信息自动提供通信
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Application No.: US15065824Application Date: 2016-03-09
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Publication No.: US09565525B2Publication Date: 2017-02-07
- Inventor: Jed Stremel , Thyagarajapuram S. Ramakrishnan , Mark Slee
- Applicant: FACEBOOK, INC.
- Applicant Address: US CA Menlo Park
- Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Menlo Park
- Agency: Fenwick & West LLP
- Main IPC: H04L29/08
- IPC: H04L29/08 ; G06Q10/00 ; H04W4/02 ; G06Q20/20 ; G06Q30/06 ; G06Q50/00 ; H04L29/06 ; H04W4/20 ; H04L12/58 ; H04W4/18

Abstract:
Systems and methods for automatically locating web-based social network members are provided. According to one embodiment, contact content including an associated GPS identifier and status for web-based social network members located at or near the same location automatically appears on a GPS-enabled device. A further exemplary system includes a GPS-enabled device configured to receive a GPS identifier and a status representing a location and a current state for a web-based social network member, a processing module that associates the received GPS-identifier and the received status, and a communications module that sends the associated GPS-identifier and status to a server comprising a web-based social network database. Contact content in a web-based social network database record in the web-based social network database is updated to include the associated GPS identifier and status for the web-based social network member.
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