Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Automated location check-in for geo-social networking system
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Application No.: US14715268Application Date: 2015-05-18
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Publication No.: US09720932B2Publication Date: 2017-08-01
- Inventor: David Edward Braginsky , Matthew Nicholas Papakipos , Lev Popov
- Applicant: Facebook, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Menlo Park
- Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Menlo Park
- Agency: Baker Botts L.L.P.
- Main IPC: G06F17/30
- IPC: G06F17/30 ; G06Q50/00 ; H04L29/08

Abstract:
In one embodiment, a geo-social networking system determines a user's current location, generate a list of places near the user's current location, rank the list of places based on distance, relevancy and a configurable rule set, and automatically checks in the user at the top ranked place.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150248437A1 AUTOMATED LOCATION CHECK-IN FOR GEO-SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2015-09-03
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