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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 06, 2009
Eyal M. Sharon, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jed Stremel, Burlingame, CA (US);
Olumakinde A. Adeagbo, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Wayne Chang, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Joseph Hewitt, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Matthew Cahill, Redwood City, CA (US);
Eyal M. Sharon, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jed Stremel, Burlingame, CA (US);
Olumakinde A. Adeagbo, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Wayne Chang, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Joseph Hewitt, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Matthew Cahill, Redwood City, CA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and/or system allows a user of a social networking service to publish a content item tagged with location information for sharing with other users of the social networking service. The user publishing the content item performs operations on the originating device to generate the content item. The originating communication device attaches the location information to the content item, and transmits the content item to a social networking system. The social networking system may provide various location-based services based on the content item tagged with the location information.