Indentifying and Providing Physical Social Actions to a Social Networking System
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1. A method comprising:
- receiving a profile of a detected physical movement of a user of a social networking system;
receiving a user identifier corresponding to the user and the detected physical movement profile;
characterizing the detected physical movement profile as a physical social action; and
providing the characterization of the physical social action to the social networking system for notifying other users of the social networking system that the user has engaged in the physical social action.
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Abstract
Physical social actions are conveniently detected, characterized, and provided to a social networking system. This improves the user experience of the social networking system by more thoroughly recording the social actions of users occurring outside a social graph. This has the effect of extending an open social graph, which typically refers to social actions taken outside the social networking system but within a computer network, to physical social actions. By providing characterized physical social actions to the social networking system, the open social graph is extended to include physical social actions.
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1. A method comprising:
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receiving a profile of a detected physical movement of a user of a social networking system; receiving a user identifier corresponding to the user and the detected physical movement profile; characterizing the detected physical movement profile as a physical social action; and providing the characterization of the physical social action to the social networking system for notifying other users of the social networking system that the user has engaged in the physical social action. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A method comprising:
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receiving at least two profiles of contemporaneously detected physical movements corresponding to at least two proximately disposed users of a social networking system; receiving a user identifier corresponding to each of the at least two proximately disposed users of the social networking system; identifying the physical movement profiles as corresponding to a physical social action between the two proximately disposed users; and communicating the physical social action to other users of the social networking system. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A system comprising:
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a sensor comprising; a movement sensor configured to detect a physical movement of a user; a processor in communication with the movement sensor, the processor configured to generate a physical movement profile comprising a data profile corresponding to the detected physical movement of the user; a local area identity transceiver configured to transmit and to receive at least one user identifier; and a network transceiver configured to communicate at least one of the physical movement profile and the user identifier; and a computing device in communication with the sensor, the computing device configured to identify a physical social action corresponding to the physical movement profile. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A computer-readable medium that includes instructions that, when loaded into memory, cause a processor to perform a method, the method comprising:
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receiving a profile of a detected physical movement of a user of a social networking system; receiving a user identifier corresponding to the user and the detected physical movement profile; characterizing the detected physical movement profile as a physical social action; and providing the characterization of the physical social action to the social networking system for notifying other users of the social networking system that the user has engaged in the physical social action. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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