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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2012
Joshua Redstone, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Eyal Michael Sharon, San Francisco, CA (US);
Srinivasa P. Narayanan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Joshua Redstone, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Eyal Michael Sharon, San Francisco, CA (US);
Srinivasa P. Narayanan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Facebook Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a user of a social networking system requests to check in a place near the user's current location. The social networking system generates a list of places near the user's current location, ranks the places in the list of places near the user's current location by a distance between each place and the user's current location, as well as activity of the user and the user's social contacts for each place, and returns the ranked list to the user.