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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 03, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 26, 2016
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Niv Seker, San Francisco, CA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a first computing device of a first user of a social-networking system may acquire a tag associated with a second computing device of a second user of the social-networking system, and process the tag for user information comprising a time stamp, a signature, and a social action associated with the social-networking system. The first computing device of a first user may send the information to a computing device of the social-networking system for verification of the user information of the second user. In addition, the first computing device of the first user may receive, in response to the verification, instructions for initiating the social action. The social action as initiated may include a transaction between the at least one node corresponding to the first user and the at least one node corresponding to the second user.