Snap Inc.

Maxwell Gale

Walton Lin

Evan Spiegel

Jonathan Dale Brody

Andrew Cheng-min Lin

Andrew Lin

Amer Shahnawaz

Daniel Amitay

Suraj Vindana Samaranayake

Timothy Jordan Garcia

Jeffrey Arthur Johnson

Daniel Vincent Grippi

Gaurav Misra

Sheridan Kates

Christie Marie Heikkinen

Jean Luo

David Phillip Taitz

Alek Matthiessen

Vincent Sung

Oleksandr Chepizhenko

Yichuan Wang

Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for providing automatically navigating between rooms within a virtual space for virtual conferencing. The program and method provide for virtual conferencing between plural participants within a first room of plural rooms included within the virtual space; provide, for each of the plural participants, display of a participant video element which corresponds to the participant and which includes a user-selectable button for requesting that the participant follow another participant with respect to navigating between the plural rooms; receive a first indication of a user selection, by a first participant, of the user-selectable button corresponding to a second participant; receive a second indication that the second participant authorizes following the first participant when navigating between the plural rooms; and provide for the second participant to follow the first participant.

Automatically navigating between rooms within a virtual conferencing system

A map-based graphical user interface (GUI) for a public messaging platform allows a user location-based to their own expired ephemeral content. Such expired content is no longer available to other users for online viewing. The user can, however, switch the GUI between a live mode and a historical mode, access to their own expired content in the historical mode being facilitated in a manner closely similar to that for viewing live publicly available content.

Map-based graphical user interface indicating geospatial activity metrics

In one or more implementations, usage of augmented reality content items may be tracked based on characteristics of respective target audiences of the augmented reality content items. User tracking components may be included with respective instances of the augmented reality content items that analyze characteristics of users of the client application access the augmented reality content items in relation to the characteristics of the target audiences.

Tracking usage of augmented reality content across multiple users

Aspects of the present disclosure involve a device comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for providing contextual information with a keyboard interface. The program and method provide for receiving a media content item provided by a second device; displaying, on a screen of the device, the media content item together with a reply element, the reply element being user-selectable to generate a reply message with respect to the media content item; receiving user selection of the reply element; and in response to receiving the user selection, displaying, in a first preset area of the screen, a keyboard interface for user selection of text to include in the reply message, and displaying, in a second preset area of the screen, a context information interface which is user-selectable to provide information corresponding to at least one type of context associated with the media content item.

Providing contextual information with keyboard interface for messaging system

A server-side administrative interface for a social media platform allows for restriction of defined geographical areas. Social media items originating from such restricted areas are automatically filtered or age-restricted for availability via a map-based graphical user interface of the social media platform.

Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for presenting participant reactions to a virtual conference. The program and method provide for a virtual conference between plural participants; provide, for each of the plural participants, display of a reaction button which is selectable by the participant to indicate a reaction to the virtual conference; receive indication of selections of the reaction button by one or more of the plural participants; and in response to receiving the indication, provide, for each of the plural participants, display of reaction icons and audio output based on the selections, determine that a rate at which the selections were received meets a threshold rate, and provide, in response to the determining, for modified audio output associated with the selections.

Presenting participant reactions within a virtual conferencing system

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