Snap Inc.

Donald Giovannini

Evan Spiegel

Newar Husam Al Majid

Nicholas Richard Allen

Robert Cornelius Murphy

Chiayi Lin

Wisam Dakka

Andre Madeira

Laurent Desserrey

Andrei Damian

Ranveer Kunal

Yaming Lin

Seyed Reza Mir Ghaderi

Celia Nicole Mourkogiannis

Nathan Kenneth Boyd

Daniel Rakhamimov

Jonathan Dale Brody

David Meisenholder

Ty Giacalone

Jungho Ahn

Congxing Cai

Robson Araujo

Guilherme Fernandes

William Jiajun Wu

Ilteris Kaan Canberk

Sheldon Chang

Jacob Andreou

Edward Koai

Krish Jayaram

Sana Park

Jie Wu

Lin Zhong

Ty Blachly

Chia-Yi Lin

Chamal Samaranayake

Joseph Burfitt

Aymeric Damien

Maryam Daneshi

Yan Wu

Newar Choukeir

Yi Liu

Jeremy Baker Voss

Dylan Shane Eirinberg

Matthew Saunders

A map-based graphical user interface (GUI) for a social media platform provides a map window that displays an interactive map that is movable within the map window responsive to user input. User icons for respective friend users of a user associated with a client device on which the map-based GUI is generated are displayed in the map window at respective locations on the interactive map. A predefined portion of the map window defines a focus area. Context information for respective friend users are automatically surface for those friend icons located within the focus area, while such context information are automatically omitted or de-surfaced for those friend icons outside of the focus area.

Focused map-based context information surfacing

Various embodiments provide for systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media that improve media content search functionality and curation of media content. For instance, various embodiments described in this document provide features that can present media content items in the form of dynamic collection of media content items upon a user typing into a search bar. In another instance, various embodiments described herein improve media content search functionality by ranking user facing search features using input signals.

Searching social media content

Systems, methods, devices, instructions, and media are described for generating suggestions for connections between accounts in a social media system. One embodiment involves storing connection graph information for a plurality of user accounts, and identifying, by one or more processors of the device, a first set of connection suggestions based on a first set of suggestion metrics. A second set of connection suggestions is then identified based on a second set of suggestion metrics, wherein the second set of connection suggestions and the second set of suggestion metrics are configured to obscure the first set of connection suggestions, and a set of suggested connections is generated based on the first set of connection suggestions and the second set of connection suggestions. The set of connection suggestions is then communicated to a client device method associated with the first account.

Additive friend suggestion for account security

Systems and methods described herein relate to generation of media collections in a messaging system. The media collection may be created by the user, other users, or an entity. Example embodiments further allow users to set access criteria through privacy settings assigned to one or more media content items themselves, as well as to a media collection, such that some or all of the media collection may only be viewed by users authorized by the user sharing the media content item or media collection (e.g., only to one or more users designated by the user as a 'friend').

Media collection generation and privacy mechanisms

System, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium for presenting images on a mobile device. Images are presented by monitoring the location and the orientation of the mobile device, requesting previously captured images corresponding to where the previously captured images were captured in relation to the location from a server, receiving the requested previously captured images from the server, selecting images from the requested previously captured images responsive to the location and the orientation of the mobile device, generating overlay images from the selected images including image icons associated with the selected images, presenting the overlay images on an optical assembly, receiving an image selection identifying one of the image icons in the presented overlay images, and display the selected image associated with the identified image icon on the viewing area of the optical assembly.

Geospatial image surfacing and selection

Systems and methods herein describe generating a shared list of media elements. The system detects a selection of an application icon within a chat interface and generates an application interface. The application interface comprises a media library. The system initiates a first user time limit and detects a selection of a media element from the media library. The system adds the media element to a shared list of media elements. Upon expiration of the first user time limit, the system initiates a second user time limit and detects a selection of a second media element from the media library. The system adds the second media element to the shared list of media elements. Upon expiration of the second user time limit, the system stores the shared list of media elements.

Turn-based collaborative playlist

A server has a processor and a memory storing instructions executed by the processor to maintain an ephemeral gallery of ephemeral messages. In response to a view request received from a client device over a distributed computer network, the message collection is supplied to the requesting device by causing automated sequential display on the client device of the ephemeral messages in the collection. The automated sequential display provides display of the messages one after another in chronological sequence such that the oldest message is displayed first.

Automated chronological display of ephemeral message gallery

A server has a processor and a memory storing instructions executed by the processor to maintain an ephemeral gallery of ephemeral messages. An ephemeral message is posted to the ephemeral gallery. The ephemeral message has an associated message duration parameter and a gallery participation parameter. An ephemeral message is removed from the ephemeral gallery in response to the identification of an expired gallery participation parameter.

Ephemeral message collection UI indicia

Systems, devices, methods and instructions are described for generating and displaying a reply menu within a graphical user interface (GUI). One embodiment involves receiving a selection of messages received at a client device, detecting a reply message generated by the first client device in response to selected messages, generating a reply menu comprising an ordered list of user account identifiers, the user account identifiers representing user accounts, each user account associated with a corresponding selected message, causing display of the reply menu within a GUI, receiving a selection of a subset of user account identifiers from the reply menu, initiating independent communication sessions with the selected subset of user account identifiers and transmitting the reply message via independent communication sessions.

Reply back mechanism within a messaging system

Automated management of ephemeral message collections

Systems, devices, media, and methods are presented for playing audio sounds, such as music, on a portable electronic device using a digital color image of a note matrix on a map. A computer vision engine, in an example implementation, includes a mapping module, a color detection module, and a music playback module. The camera captures a color image of the map, including a marker and a note matrix. Based on the color image, the computer vision engine detects a token color value associated with each field. Each token color value is associated with a sound sample from a specific musical instrument. A global state map is stored in memory, including the token color value and location of each field in the note matrix. The music playback module, for each column, in order, plays the notes associated with one or more the rows, using the corresponding sound sample, according to the global state map.

Computer vision and mapping for audio

Various embodiments provide for systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for annotating a collection of media items, such as digital images. According to some embodiments, an annotation system automatically determines one or more annotations for a plurality of media content items, and generates a collection of media content items that associates the determined annotations with the plurality of media content items. Depending on the embodiment, annotations that may be determined for the plurality of media content (and associated with the collection for the media content items) can include, without limitation, a caption, a geographic location, a category, a novelty measurement, an event, and a highlight media content item representing the collection.

Annotating a collection of media content items

Systems, devices, methods, and instructions are described for generating and using expressive icons with status indicators for a map based graphical user interface (GUI). One embodiment involves accessing location information, map data icon information, and action indicator information associated with an account of a social media platform. A device then causes generation of a combined action icon generated using the icon information and the action indicator and causes display of a map interface with the map data and the combined action icon positioned at a location indicated by the location information.

Combined map icon with action indicator

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Donald Giovannini