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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 19, 2021
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2019
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Michael James LeBeau, London, GB;
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, San Francisco, CA (US);
Manish Modi, Fremont, CA (US);
Caitlin E. Kalinowski, San Francisco, CA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving current session information associated with a first user from a beacon associated with a third-party content provider, wherein the current session information indicates that a first client system of the first user is in an active wireless communication session with the beacon, accessing session information associated with one or more second users, wherein each second user is within a threshold geographical distance of the beacon, selecting one or more of the one or more second users based on the accessed session information, wherein the accessed session information associated with each of the selected second users indicates that a second client system associated with the selected second user is not in a wireless communication session with the beacon, and sending a notification referencing the selected one or more second users to the first client system.