Patent ID: 9729667
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: G06Q,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method comprising, by one or more computing devices of an online social network: accessing a social graph comprising a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges connecting the nodes, each of the edges between two of the nodes representing a single degree of separation between them, the nodes comprising: receiving, from a beacon associated with a third-party content provider, session information associated with the first user, wherein: selecting one or more of the second users, wherein the selecting is based on a second geographic location of a second client system associated with the second user, the second geographic location being within a threshold distance of the particular geographic location of the beacon, and wherein a wireless communication session is not active between the beacon and each of second client systems associated with the selected second users; and sending, to the first client system of the first user, a notification referencing one or more of the selected second users.