Snap Inc.

Bernardo Perez

Virgil L Archer, Iii

Matthew Alan Jones

Aung Win Thein

Ngoan Nguyen

Kyle Dumo

Allen Huang

John Trent DiBacco

Virgil L Iii Archer

Described herein is an application-to-friend data service for constructing and maintaining an application-to-friend index. The data service has a first service component that is triggered when an end-user opens an application. The first service component performs operations to update the database table with current data concerning other end-users who are friends of the end-user on whose behalf the data service has been invoked. The data service includes a second service component to receive and process a query by efficiently returning, for a given end-user and a given application, a list of connections or friends of the given end-user who are also end-users of the application.

Technique for constructing and maintaining an application-to-friend index

A methodology is described that provides access to an augmented reality (AR) component maintained by a messaging server system directly from a web view application. When a user activates, from a web view application executing in the messaging client, a user selectable element that references an AR component, a web view AR system obtains the identification of the AR component, performs validation of the identification and of any additional launch data, and launches a camera view user interface (UI) with the AR component loaded in the camera view UI. Content captured from the camera view UI can be shared to other computing devices.

Integrating augmented reality into the web view platform

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Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

Bernardo Perez