Patent ID: 8774778

Claim:
A method implemented by an information handling system comprising: establishing a mobile entity at a social networking website, wherein the mobile entity is associated with an event having a mobile location, and wherein the establishing comprises: setting a user access policy that corresponds to the mobile entity; establishing one or more mobile entity devices, wherein each mobile entity device serves as a geographic beacon of the mobile entity; and setting a mobile entity lifetime that applies to the mobile entity; receiving a geographic beacon location corresponding to the mobile entity; receiving a geographic user location corresponding to a mobile user device that is associated with a user of the social networking website; determining whether the geographic beacon location is proximate to the geographic user location; determining whether the user is authorized to check into the mobile entity, wherein the determining comprises: sending a user identifier corresponding to the user to the social networking website; and receiving a response from the social networking website indicating whether the user is authorized to check into the mobile entity; and logging, at the social networking website, a check-in of the user at the mobile entity in response to the determination being that the geographic beacon location is proximate to the geographic user location and the user is authorized to check into the mobile entity.