System and method for rewarding customers who invite other customers to a business

A system for utilizing Global Positioning System (GPS) data, the system comprising:

• one or more processors of one or more servers;
• and
• a non-transitory computer readable memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, causes the one or more processors to:
• implement one or more application programming interfaces to integrate one or more extension applications of one or more respective client devices with a social network executing on the one or more servers;
• identify, over one or more distributed networks through the one or more application programming interfaces and from an extension application of a first client device, GPS data indicating that a first user of the first client device has performed a social check-in on the social network at a geographic location using the extension application of the first client device;
• responsive to identifying the GPS data through the one or more application programming interfaces and from the extension application of the first client device, determine that the GPS data is related to one or more second users (i) connected to the first user in a social graph, and (ii) associated with a predetermined area surrounding the geographic location by automatically searching the social graph in the social network from which the social check-in is performed to identify the one or more second users (i) connected to the first user in the social graph, and (ii) associated with the predetermined area surrounding the geographic location;
• in accordance with the GPS data being related to the one or more second users, enhance a first offering related to the geographic location to be directed to the one or more second users over the one or more distributed networks;
• automatically send, to the one or more second users and to one or more second client devices of the second users, the first offering related to the geographic location in conjunction with identifying the GPS data indicating that the first user has arrived at the geographic location;
• receive additional GPS data indicating that the one or more second users have arrived at the geographic location within a predetermined period of time after the first user;
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• send a second offering related to the geographic location to the first user in response to receiving the additional GPS data indicating that the one or more second users have arrived at the geographic location.

A computer program product embodied in a non-transitive computer-readable medium including instructions for utilizing Global Positioning System (GPS) data, that when executed, cause one or more processors of one or more servers to:

• implement one or more application programming interfaces to integrate one or more extension applications of one or more respective client devices with a social network executing on the one or more servers;
• identify, over one or more distributed networks through the one or more application programming interfaces and from an extension application of a first client device, GPS data indicating that a first user of the first client device has performed a social check-in on the social network at a geographic location using the extension application of the first client device;
• responsive to identifying the GPS data through the one or more application programming interfaces and from the extension application of the first client device, determining that the GPS data is related to one or more second users (i) connected to the first user in a social graph, and (ii) associated with a predetermined area surrounding the geographic location by automatically searching the social graph in the social network from which the social check-in is performed to identify the one or more second users (i) connected to the first user in the social graph, and (ii) associated with the predetermined area surrounding the geographic location;
• in accordance with data representing the one or more second users related to the GPS data, enhance a first offering to be directed to the one or more second users over the one or more distributed networks;
• automatically send, by the one or more computing devices and to one or more second client devices of the one or more second users, the first offering related to the geographic location in conjunction with identifying the GPS data indicating that the first user has arrived at the geographic location;
• receive additional GPS data indicating that the one or more second users have arrived at the geographic location;
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• send a second offering related to the geographic location to the first user in response to receiving the additional GPS data indicating that the one or more second users have arrived at the geographic location.