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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 2021
Filed:
May. 23, 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 beacons of a third-party (e.g., a business), session information for a user of an online social network. A mobile device of the user may have been in at least one wireless communication session with at least one beacon, and during the session the mobile device was proximate to the at least one beacon. The session information may include an identifier for the user, which may be used to access social-networking information for the user. Session information and the social-networking information of the user may be sent back to the third-party. User-specified permissions may delimit which information may be sent.