Invention Application
- Patent Title: AUTOMATICALLY PROVIDING A COMMUNICATION BASED ON LOCATION INFORMATION FOR A USER OF A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM
- Patent Title (中): 根据社会网络系统用户的位置信息自动提供通信
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Application No.: US14629193Application Date: 2015-02-23
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Publication No.: US20150172398A1Publication Date: 2015-06-18
- Inventor: Jed Stremel , Thyagarajapuram S. Ramakrishnan , Mark Slee
- Applicant: Facebook, Inc.
- Main IPC: H04L29/08
- IPC: H04L29/08

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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