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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.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2016

Filed:

Sep. 27, 2012
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Anthony E. Faillaci, III, Austin, TX (US);

Matthew C. Hillary, Tyler, TX (US);

Jorge R. Nogueras, Austin, TX (US);

Irina Tyshkevich, Austin, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01); H04W 4/02 (2009.01); H04W 4/08 (2009.01); H04W 4/20 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 50/01 (2013.01); H04W 4/022 (2013.01); H04W 4/08 (2013.01); H04W 4/206 (2013.01);
Abstract

In a method for creating a social networking check-in location for social networking applications, a computer receives a geographic location for each user computing device in a plurality of user computing devices. The computer determines a portion of the plurality of user computing devices that exhibit an area density exceeding a threshold. The area density is defined as a number of user computing devices per unit area. The computer receives two or more social networking messages from the portion of the plurality of user computing devices. The computer determines a common subject between the two or more social networking messages. The computer creates a social networking check-in location.


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