Automatically providing a communication based on location information for a user of a social networking system
AssigneeFacebook, Inc.
InventorsJed Stremel, Thyagarajapuram S. Ramakrishnan, Mark Slee
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AssigneeFacebook, Inc.
InventorsJed Stremel, Thyagarajapuram S. Ramakrishnan, Mark Slee
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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.
A computer-implemented method comprising:
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that when executed by a processor of a client device cause the processor to:
A social networking system comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.