Patent ID: 9204247
Filing Date: 2015-12-01
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for generating a proximity-based notification, the method comprising: receiving, by one or more computing devices, user location information for a user and member location information for a member of a social graph belonging to the user; determining, by the one or more computing devices, based on the user location information and the member location information, whether the member is located within a threshold distance of the user; calculating, by the one or more computing devices, a number of photographs associated with the user in which both the user and the member are depicted; and generating, by the one or more computing devices, a notification to the user if the member is located within the threshold distance of the user and if the number of photographs is less than a threshold number of photographs, the notification comprising a prompt to the user to take a photograph with the member.