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Date of Patent:
Feb. 08, 2022

Filed:

Jun. 26, 2020
Applicant:

Salesforce.com, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);

Inventor:

Jason Gerner, Brownsburg, IN (US);

Assignee:

salesforce.com, inc., San Francisco, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/54 (2006.01); H04W 4/021 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/547 (2013.01); G06F 9/541 (2013.01); H04W 4/021 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems, device and techniques are disclosed for controlling location-based features with usage maps. An application running on a device may receive a current location of the device. The application may determine a sector of a usage map that corresponds to the current location of the device. The usage map may be associated with the application and he usage map may include a map of a geographic area divided into sectors. The application may modify the operation of a remote API call of the application based on the sector of the usage map that corresponds to the current location of the device by disabling or rate-limiting the remote API call.


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