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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2018

Filed:

Dec. 31, 2013
Applicant:

Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);

Inventors:

Tomer Cohen, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Jonathan Redfern, Truckee, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01); H04W 4/21 (2018.01); H04W 4/02 (2018.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 51/32 (2013.01); H04L 51/20 (2013.01); H04L 67/38 (2013.01); H04W 4/02 (2013.01); H04W 4/21 (2018.02);
Abstract

A method of presenting on a device of a user of a social-networking system information about other users of the social-networking system is disclosed. A location of the user of a social-networking system is determined. Locations of the additional users of the social-networking system are determined. A subset of the additional users of the social networking system is selected based on the location of the user and the locations of the additional users and based on information stored in a profile of the user in comparison to information stored in profiles of the additional users. Instructions are transmitted to a device of a user, the instructions instructing the device to display in a condensed visual form the subset of the information stored in the profiles of the additional users.


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