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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 04, 2017
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Michael James LeBeau, Brooklyn, NY (US);
Samuel Wharton Lessin, San Francisco, CA (US);
Joseph David Barillari, New York, NY (US);
Amir Shimoni, New York, NY (US);
Arlene Gabriana Murillo, Union City, CA (US);
Mateusz Marek Niewczas, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Manish Modi, San Jose, CA (US);
Caitlin E. Kalinowski, San Francisco, CA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, from a beacon associated with a third-party content provider (e.g., a business), a current session information of the first user of an online social network. The first user's mobile device is proximate to and in a wireless communication session with the beacon, which is located at the third-party content provider. One or more second users who are associated with geographic locations within a threshold distance of the location of the beacon are selected. A notification referencing the selected second users is sent to the first user's mobile device, indicating that the second users are nearby.