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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. 05, 2021

Filed:

Oct. 25, 2019
Applicant:

Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);

Inventor:

Jordan Springstroh, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/58 (2006.01); H04W 8/22 (2009.01); H04W 4/029 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 51/32 (2013.01); H04L 51/20 (2013.01); H04W 4/029 (2018.02); H04W 8/22 (2013.01);
Abstract

The disclosed computer-implemented method may include receiving, via a user interface of a social networking system (SNS) (1) a request to include a user of the SNS in a set of users of the SNS, and (2) a time frame associated with an event The method may also include including the user in the set of users based on receiving the request to include the user in the set of users. The method may also include tracking, via a location tracking feature of a mobile device associated with a target user of the SNS, a physical location of the target user during the time frame, and sharing, via the SNS during the time frame, the physical location of the target user with the set of users. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.


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