Patent ID: 9665835
Date: 2017-05-30
CPC Classifications: G06Q,G08B,H04L

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: establishing an emergency event node for an emergency in a social networking system; accessing records for a plurality of users of the social networking system, wherein each user of the plurality of users is associated with a set of connections to other users in the social networking system; determining a set of at-risk users from the plurality of users as being associated with the emergency event node, the set of at-risk users identifying users that may be impacted by the emergency; requesting a status update relative to the emergency event node from one or more users connected to at least one at-risk user in the set of at-risk users; receiving, from a user connected to an at-risk user in the set of at-risk users, one or more status updates about one or more at-risk users, the status update including a safety indicator chosen from a set of predetermined safety indicators; and communicating the status updates, including the safety indicator, about the at-risk user to one or more other users who have established a connection with the at-risk user, the communicating excluding communication of the status updates to one or more users who do not have access privileges to information associating the one or more at-risk users with the emergency event node.