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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2014
Applicant:
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Inventor:
Niv Seker, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 5/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/00 (2006.01); G06K 7/00 (2006.01); G06Q 99/00 (2006.01); G06Q 20/22 (2012.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 20/223 (2013.01); G06F 17/30943 (2013.01); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a computing device of a social-networking system may receive from a computing device of a first user of the social-networking system information acquired by the computing device of the first user from a tag associated with a second user of the social-networking system. The tag may encode a time stamp, a signature, and a social action on the social-networking system. The computing device of the social-networking system may verify the signature and, if the signature is verified, then initiate the social action.