Patent ID: 9195989
Filing Date: 2015-11-24
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: by one or more computing devices, receiving from a first user a request to create a location-triggered benefit by a social-networking system that is redeemable by a second user at a vendor and associated with a condition, wherein: by one or more computing devices, creating a record of the location-triggered benefit in a database; by one or more computing devices, receiving information indicating that the second user has satisfied the condition; by one or more computing devices, in response to the information, allowing the second user to redeem the location-triggered benefit at the vendor by transmitting to the second user information for redeeming the location-triggered benefit at a location of the vendor, wherein the location-triggered benefit is accessible to the second user only when the second user is at or near the location of the vendor; and by one or more computing device, sending a message by the social-networking system to the first user that the second user has redeemed the location-triggered benefit.