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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 18, 2010
Joshua Redstone, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Benjamin J. Gertzfield, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Eyal M. Sharon, San Francisco, CA (US);
Srinivasa P. Narayanan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Daniel Jeng-ping Hui, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Joshua Redstone, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Benjamin J. Gertzfield, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Eyal M. Sharon, San Francisco, CA (US);
Srinivasa P. Narayanan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Daniel Jeng-Ping Hui, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a user of a social networking system requests to search for a place near the user's current location. The social networking system generates a list of places near the user's current location, select a sub-set from the list of places based on visibility and activity of the user and the user's social contacts for each place in the list, and returns the sub-set to the user.