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Patent Inventor Names
Eyal M. Sharon0
Joshua Redstone0
Srinivasa P. Narayanan0
Date of Patent
April 3, 2012
Patent Application Number
12858718
Date Filed
August 18, 2010
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Patent abstract
In one embodiment, a user of a social networking system requests to check in a place near the user's current location. The social networking system generates a list of places near the user's current location, ranks the places in the list of places near the user's current location by a distance between each place and the user's current location, as well as activity of the user and the user's social contacts for each place, and returns the ranked list to the user.
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