Apple Inc.

Bhaskar P Sarma

Roberto Garcia

Kevin J Lindeman

Adele C Peterson

Nicholas Joseph Circosta

Eugene M Bistolas

Daniel Ben Pollack

Keith P Kowalczykowski

Chanaka G Karunamuni

Nathaniel C Begeman

David Alex Carter

Bartosz Ciechanowski

Patrick Robert Burns

William R Dahlberg

Liang Qu

Imran A Chaudhri

Olivier Gutknecht

Justin N Wood

Pierre Jonathan De Filippis

Gokul P Thirumalai

Alexandre A Aybes

Michael D Ford

Robert Y Loh

Ori Herrnstadt

Raghav V Pisolkar

Craig Michael Federighi

Imran Chaudhri, Iii

Yannick L Sierra

Sam H Gharabally

Matthew C Lucas

Jose A Lozano Hinojosa

Justin R Etzine

Ryan A Williams

David S Evans

Lilynaz Hashemi

Adam Y Syed

Adam Thomas Binsz

Lemont A Washington

Chieh Lu

Priya Shah

Sean Geiger

David J Browning

Gokul Thirumala

A device implementing a system for providing information corresponding to a user in association with messaging includes a processor configured to receive, by a messaging application on the device, a message and associated metadata from a second device, the associated metadata comprising a record identifier of a data record stored on a server, the data record comprising identifying information corresponding to a user of the second device. The processor is further configured to send, to the server, a request for the data record, the request comprising the record identifier, and obtain, in response to the sending, the data record. The processor is further configured to display the identifying information of the user contained in the data record, together with content of the message in a user interface of the messaging application.

Providing user information in association with messaging

A text messaging system that allows messaging apps to send one or more layer identifiers that can specify content for a layer and Z depth of that layer relative to other layers in a text message transcript such as a sent message layer and a received message layer.

Layers in messaging applications

Aspects of subject technology provide systems and methods for generation and distribution of a stable identifier associated with multiple aliases of a user account. The stable identifier may be provided to various electronic devices by a server, responsive to requests associated with communications to those devices from one of the associated aliases. In this way, messaging applications can utilize the stable identifier to merge conversations from a single user having multiple aliases, and secure access to a secure device can be provided to an authorized user, even if the authorized user attempts access from an unauthorized account alias.

Conversation merging for electronic devices

The present disclosure generally relates to synchronizing copies of a data object.

Group activity session synchronization

A service for providing messaging extension apps can be an online store that can be browsed and searched for the apps. The store uses extension app identifiers which are related to app identifiers that are sent between devices in a conversation of messages so that a receiving device can, when it does not have the extension app installed to interact with received content, use the extension app identifier to download and install the required extension app. In one embodiment, the download and install can occur while the messaging app remains the foreground app, and the messaging app adds an icon of the newly installed extension app into a browsable tray in the UI of the messaging app.

Message extension app store

A messaging system uses a cloud storage backup system for messages and a temporary storage for messages that are not deliverable to offline devices at the time that the messages are sent by one or more messaging servers. The messages are backed up through a synchronization process that transfers a batch of a plurality of messages rather than a single message or an entire database of messages. A conversation state can be synchronized first before synchronizing messages through the transfer of one or more batches of messages.

Cloud storage and synchronization of messages

A messaging system in one embodiment includes a messaging app and one or more sticker extension apps configured to create a sticker image and render a sticker image that is displayed in a view hosted by the messaging app. The messaging app can launch, from a browsable view that includes one or more sticker extension apps, one or more of the sticker extension apps, and a sticker image created by one of the sticker extension apps can be communicated between the sticker extension app and the messaging app through an interprocess communication.

Messaging sticker applications

Growing community of inventors

Santa Clara, CA, United States of America

Bhaskar P Sarma