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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 08, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 09, 2014
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Michael James LeBeau, Brooklyn, NY (US);
Samuel Wharton Lessin, San Francisco, CA (US);
Joseph David Barillari, New York, NY (US);
Amir Shimoni, New York, NY (US);
Arlene Gabriana Murillo, Union City, CA (US);
Mateusz Marek Niewczas, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Manish Modi, San Jose, CA (US);
Caitlin E. Kalinowski, San Francisco, CA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method includes sending, via a beacon of a third-party content provider (e.g., a business), a request to associate with a user's mobile device. The request may be sent when the mobile device is proximate to the beacon, which may be located within a place of business. The request may include an attribute of the business (e.g., the type of business). A wireless communication session may be established between the beacon and the mobile device, and, in response, social-networking information of the user may be received, via the beacon. The particular information sent may be tailored to the business based on the received attribute, and a set of user-specified permissions may delimit what information is sent and to whom the information is sent. Third-party content may be customized based on the received social-networking information and sent to the mobile device for display.