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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 15, 2012
Barry Appelman, New York, NY (US);
Andrew Ivar Erickson, Vienna, VA (US);
Larry L. LU, Great Falls, VA (US);
Robert Eugene Weltman, Los Altos, CA (US);
Barry Appelman, New York, NY (US);
Andrew Ivar Erickson, Vienna, VA (US);
Larry L. Lu, Great Falls, VA (US);
Robert Eugene Weltman, Los Altos, CA (US);
FACEBOOK, INC., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
Providing location information to a supervisory user includes providing a parental control, using a computer automatically to determine a location of a subordinate user, and storing location information indicative of the location of the subordinate user in a database. A request of the supervisory user to locate the subordinate user is received and a user interface informs the supervisory user of the location of the subordinate user based on the stored location information. At least one of the storing and/or the informing are based on the parental control.