Snap Inc.

Laurent Desserrey

Jeremy Baker Voss

Christie Marie Heikkinen

Newar Husam Al Majid

Daniel Rakhamimov

Nathaniel Parrott

Dylan Shane Eirinberg

Susan Marie Territo

Nathan Kenneth Boyd

David Whyte

Matthew Colin Grantham

Edward Koai

Matthew Thompson

Patrick Mandia

Kaveh Anvaripour

Donald Giovannini

Celia Nicole Mourkogiannis

William Jiajun Wu

David Phillip Taitz

Evan Spiegel

Daniel Moreno

Ranidu Lankage

Joseph Timothy Fortier

Jane Meng

Alex Edelsburg

Virginia Drummond

Benedict Copping

Christine Barron

Charles Burson DePue

David Paliwoda

Chang Li

Benjamin Ralph Hollis

Ian Anthony Wehrman

Alexander P Powell

Joseph Engelman

Daniel Szeto

Sana Park

Imani Ritchards

Matthew Saunders

Arianne Spool

Yuriana Zamora

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

Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for combining individual functions into shortcuts. The program and method provide for accessing information for a shortcut for performing with respect to an image captured by a device camera, the shortcut corresponding to a combination of individual functions to apply to the image; causing, based on the accessing, display of an interface with a user-selectable element for performing the shortcut with respect to the image; receiving, via the interface, user selection of the user-selectable element; and applying, in response to the receiving, the combination of the individual functions to the image.

Combining individual functions into shortcuts within a messaging system

A message reminder system, to perform operations that include: causing display of a presentation of a message addressed to a user, at a first position among a message feed of the user at a client device; receiving a request to open the message from the user of the client device, the request including a timestamp; detecting a trigger event based on at least the timestamp of the request to open the message, the trigger event comprising event attributes; generating a notification to be applied to the presentation of the message, the notification based on at least the event attributes of the trigger event; moving the presentation of the message from the first position among the message feed to a second position among the message feed; and applying the notification to the presentation of the message.

Message reminder interface

Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for customizing a capture button used during video recording. The program and method provide for determining that a user of an application has access to exclusive features within the application, customizing a capture button for replacing display of a shutter button during video recording; displaying a first user interface for user selection of the capture button from among plural available capture buttons; receiving user input provided selecting the capture button from among the plural available capture buttons; displaying a second user interface for presenting real-time image data captured by a camera, the second user interface including the shutter button which is user-selectable to initiate video recording in response to second user input; and replacing, upon detecting the second user input, display of the shutter button with the selected capture button.

Customizing a capture button used during video recording

Systems, devices, methods, instructions stored on media, and other embodiments for a camera interface are described. One embodiment is a method of providing audio input feedback during content capture using a camera, which can involve initiating capture of a piece of content in response to a capture input touch action received at a camera interface on a touchscreen display of the computing device and then processing data from a microphone of the computing device to identify an audio stream associated with the piece of content. An audio quality score is determined from the audio stream, and a feedback signal is displayed on the touchscreen display of the computing device while the capture input touch action is ongoing and associated with capture of the piece of content.

Content capture with audio input feedback

Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for providing reduced availability modes in messaging. The program and method provide for maintaining a count of consecutive time periods in which message content has been exchanged between a first user and a second user in a messaging application; receiving, from a device associated with the first user, a request to set an availability mode for the first user to a reduced availability mode with respect to the messaging application; setting, in response to receiving the request, the availability mode for the first user to the reduced availability mode; and refraining from updating the count while the availability mode is set to the reduced availability mode.

Providing reduced availability modes in messaging

Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for presenting shortcuts based on a scan operation. The program and method provide for receiving a user request to identify at least one object depicted in an image captured by a device camera; determining, in response to receiving the user request, an attribute of an object depicted in the image; selecting, from a plurality of shortcuts for performing with respect to the image, a shortcut that is associated with the attribute of the object, each shortcut of the plurality of shortcuts corresponding to a combination of individual functions to apply to the image; and causing display of an interface with a user-selectable element for performing the selected shortcut with respect to the image.

Presenting shortcuts based on a scan operation within a messaging system

Display screen or portion thereof with a graphical user interface

A permission based media system to perform operations that include: presenting a first media object at a client device associated with a user account, the first media object including a reference that identifies the user account; receiving an input that selects the first media object from the client device; determining a permission of the user account based on the reference that identifies the user account; presenting a set of options based on the permission associated with the user account; receiving a selection of an option from among the set of options; and generating a second media object based on the first media object and the selection of the option, according to certain embodiments.

Permission based media composition

Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for providing an draggable shutter button during video recording. The program and method provide for displaying a user interface within an application running on a device, the user interface presenting real-time image data captured by a camera of the device, the user interface including a shutter button which is configured to be selectable by a user to initiate video recording in response to a first user gesture; and upon detecting the first user gesture selecting the shutter button, initiating video recording with respect to the real-time image data, and providing for the shutter button to be draggable in predefined directions to perform respective functions related to the video recording.

Providing draggable shutter button during video recording

Method starts with processor receiving media content item and selection of personalized media overlay. Personalized media overlay includes image with space for text. Processor generates modified media content item by overlaying personalized media overlay on media content item. Modified media content item includes the image with the space for text overlaid on the media content item. Processor receives a selection of recipients including second user and third user. Processor generates recipient-personalized media content items including recipient-personalized media content item for second user by adding second user's name to the space for text in the image and recipient-personalized media content item for third user by adding the third user's name to the space for text in the image. Processor causes recipient-personalized media content item for second user to be displayed by second client device and recipient-personalized media content item for third user to be displayed by third client device.

Generating recipient-personalized media content items

Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for animating a pull-to-refresh gesture. The program and method provide for receiving a pull gesture in a messaging application; selecting, in response to receiving the pull gesture, a set of users corresponding to contacts in the messaging application; and displaying a set of images for each user in the set of users, in association with refreshing screen content.

Animated pull-to-refresh

Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system for hiding conversation elements. The system accesses a conversation interface of a messaging application on a web browser and presents the conversation interface in a window associated with the web browser. The conversation interface comprises a plurality of conversation elements. The system accesses a focus status of the window and, in response to determining that the focus status indicates that the window has lost focus, obscures a first subset of the plurality of conversation elements.

Obscuring elements based on browser focus

A method and a system include receiving a first message from a first device associated with a first user, the first message being associated with a group conversation between plural users including the first user and a second user, the group conversation comprising a main conversation view and first experience page; determining the first message was transmitted from the first experience page; detecting the first user being active within the first experience page and the second user being active within the main conversation view; and causing display of the first message, a name of the first user, and a page source graphical element indicating the first experience page on a second device associated with the second user.

User presence indication data management

Disclosed is a method for providing custom visual settings on a device including a display and at least one camera. The method comprises displaying a video on the display of the device, the video including data specifying the camera settings and visual effects that were applied during capture of the video, displaying a camera effects shortcut, receiving user selection of the camera effects shortcut, and, based on receipt of user selection of the camera effects shortcut, displaying, on the display, a video feed from the at least one camera on the with the visual effects and camera settings specified by the data.

Camera settings and effects shortcuts

Growing community of inventors

Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

Laurent Desserrey