Patent Document ID: 9385986
Application ID: 14142624

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: identifying third-party content objects associated with a user of the social networking system; establishing, by a computer, a maximum rate at which to provide notifications of third-party content objects to the user, where the maximum rate is a maximum number of notifications that can be sent to the user in a predetermined time period; providing a first set of notifications of third-party content objects to a user device of the user within the maximum rate; receiving a plurality of interactions with the first set of notifications made by the user; automatically identifying, from the plurality of interactions, a geographic location where the user had interactions with the first set of notifications; automatically determining that the user is at the geographic location where the user had the interactions with the first set of notifications; adjusting the maximum rate to provide the notifications of third-party content objects based on the user being at the geographic location; providing a second set of notifications of third-party content objects to the user device within the adjusted maximum rate while the user is at the geographic location.

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Claim 9:
9. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein establishing the maximum rate at which to provide notifications of third-party content objects comprises: accessing user preference settings for the user; and identifying, from the user preference settings, a user specified maximum rate at which to provide the notifications of the third-party content objects.