Facebook has been issued a patent that seems to give a sweeping intellectual property in the jurisdiction of the location-enabled social networks, something that the creators Bnet first noticed on Wednesday.
Given the location geolocation is still no single dominant player , possession of such a patent can be a powerful weapon on Facebook that has broad implications for the industry.
Patent no. 7,809,805, called Systems and methods for automated network location of social network members, are extremely detailed. Among the concepts, he says, is to send and receive messages, depending on location, status(which is commonly known as check-in), the technology to keep these check-in, the ability to sense the address of the shop in the controls, and a friend to receive the check- al.
Facebook was by many accounts, late to the game on geolocation. Is mulled buying Foursquare , currently the most discussed start-up in space, but the Foursquare asked for a higher price for Facebook withdrew its offer. In August, Facebook launched the Facebook site check-in service, which will ultimately enable third parties to incorporate them into geolocation Facebook application.
When Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said today that Facebook attraction is already the largest and location of the proposal, its there is still a lot of competitors . Foursquare, although recent server downtime , which dominates the headlines. Google is still in its platform Latitude. And Twitter has recently turned geotagging tweets.
Some of the technology industrys fear that this patent gives Facebook too much power. Weve seen this problem before. Earlier this year, Facebook was received a patent for his news feed technology , which in some prominent members of the tech slammed as a gesture of anti-competitive, which could put out the other construction companies, real-time allows. Do not have heard, however, including Twitter complaining about this.(That does not mean it will not be in the future.)
Facebook is also the owner of patent portfolio and social-media that it acquired from erstwhile rival Friendster.
This article was first published in a blog post on CNET News.
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