Location-based social software for mobile devices
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1. A method for communicating location information to a device, comprising:
- receiving, at a computer system that implements a social networking service, an electronic message from a first user;
associating, by the computer system, the received message with a profile associated with the first user and maintained by the social networking service, the profile identifying other users who are acquaintances in the social network of the first user;
identifying devices of other users who are identified as being acquaintances of the first user; and
sending, from the computer system that implements the social networking service and to devices of the other users, a message that is generated based at least in part on the received electronic message from the first user,wherein the message is sent to other users for display in chronological order with other messages sent to the other users from others of their acquaintances.
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Abstract
A method for communicating location information to a device includes receiving, at a computer system that implements a social networking service, location information that represents a geographic location of a device associated with a first user; associating, by the computer system, the received location information with a profile associated with the first user; and sending, from the computer system to a device associated with a second user, a message that is generated based at least in part on the location information.
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19 Claims
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1. A method for communicating location information to a device, comprising:
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receiving, at a computer system that implements a social networking service, an electronic message from a first user; associating, by the computer system, the received message with a profile associated with the first user and maintained by the social networking service, the profile identifying other users who are acquaintances in the social network of the first user; identifying devices of other users who are identified as being acquaintances of the first user; and sending, from the computer system that implements the social networking service and to devices of the other users, a message that is generated based at least in part on the received electronic message from the first user, wherein the message is sent to other users for display in chronological order with other messages sent to the other users from others of their acquaintances. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. One or more non-transitory, tangible machine-readable media having recorded thereon instructions, that when executed by one or more computer processors, perform operations comprises:
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receiving, at a computer system that implements a social networking service, an electronic message from a first user; associating, by the computer system, the received message with a profile associated with the first user and maintained by the social networking service, the profile identifying other users who are acquaintances in the social network of the first user; identifying devices of other users who are identified as being acquaintances of the first user; and sending, from the computer system that implements the social networking service and to devices of the other users, a message that is generated based at least in part on the received electronic message from the first user, wherein the message is sent to other users for display in chronological order with other messages sent to the other users from others of their acquaintances. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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