Snap Inc.

Nathan Kenneth Boyd

Jeremy Baker Voss

Newar Husam Al Majid

Andrew Grosvenor Cooper

Jonathan Dale Brody

Matthew Thompson

Celia Nicole Mourkogiannis

Christie Marie Heikkinen

Laurent Desserrey

David Phillip Taitz

Kirk Ouimet

Chamal Samaranayake

Benedict Copping

William Jiajun Wu

Edward Koai

Kaveh Anvaripour

Ranidu Lankage

Evan Spiegel

Matthew Lee Cook

Sheldon Chang

David Michael Hornsby

Yiwen Zhan

Brian Yee

Daniel Moreno

Ebony James Charlton

Donald Giovannini

Christine Barron

Chinmay Lonkar

Omer Cansizoglu

Devin Doty

Yamill Antonio Vallecillo

Zachary Lupei

Yue Hu

Yu Wang

Charles Melbye

Jong-Hwi Lee

Wenbin Chen

Lu Lu

Zuoyou Gu

Timothy Kautz

Chiung-Fu Shih

Mai Chi Tran

Alex Beltyukov

Dongguang Zhao

Jiawen Zeng

Suraj Vindana Samaranayake

Kameron Sheffield

Georgiy Kassabli

Vu Tran

Siqi Chen

Erik J Wagner

Nicholas Richard Allen

Benjamin Ralph Hollis

Rahul Bhupendra Sheth

Justin Huang

Haibo Zhao

Krish Jayaram

Brandon Francis

Ken W Chung

Zhuangtian Zhao

Alex Edelsburg

Jacob Catalano

Imani Ritchards

Xingnan Xia

Manny Jerrold Adler

Teresa Lieh

Christopher Jonathan Luc

Glenne Christiaansen

Ty Blachly

Patrick Mandia

Kevin Dechau Tang

Susan Marie Territo

Hao Hu

Joseph Burfitt

Joseph Timothy Fortier

Satya Kanduri

Dallin Dyer

David Paliwoda

Sivakumar Loganathan

Kevin Joseph Thornberry

Richard Andrew Leatham

Yansong Liu

Sherif Mohamed

Maryam Daneshi

Shannon Ward

Newar Choukeir

Djan Belli

Michael Joseph DiBenedetto

Peter Lapin

Khoi Tran

Isabelle Albi

Daniel M Silva

Anton Bredykhin

Maxim Maximov Lazarov

Jinwoo Kim

Daniel Rakhamimov

Ian Anthony Wehrman

Yiwei Ma

Daniel Vincent Grippi

A content request is received from a user device of a viewing user of an interaction system. An interaction application executing at the user device presents a viewing user interface that includes a content zone and an interaction zone. A third-party content item is presented in the content zone. The interaction zone comprises a first interaction subzone located in a lower section of the viewing user interface, outside of the content zone. The first interaction subzone includes a user-selectable interaction element. The interaction zone further comprises a second interaction subzone positioned adjacent to the first interaction subzone in the lower section of the viewing user interface. The second interaction subzone is located inside of the content zone and includes a user-selectable context element. Responsive to detecting an interaction gesture directed at the interaction zone, the interaction application automatically transitions from a viewing state to an interaction state.

User interface including multiple interaction zones

Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system for tagging content items. The system generates for display, by a messaging application, a content item. The system receives, by the messaging application, input that selects a visual element and determines that the visual element visually represents a plurality of users. The system adds the visual element to the content item. The system, in response to adding the visual element to the content item and based on determining that the visual element represents the plurality of users, links the content item with the visual element to one or more respective accounts on the messaging application of one or more of the plurality of users.

Automated tagging of content items

Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a storage medium storing a program and method for rule-based sharing of content collections. The program and method provide for storing, in association with each content collection, a set of rules with first criteria for adding a content item to the content collection, and with second criteria for viewing the content collection; determining, for a first content collection, that the respective first criteria is met for a first user of a first device; providing, based on the determining, for the first user to generate the content item; adding the generated content item to the first content collection; determining, for the first content collection, that the respective second criteria is met for a second user of a second device; and providing, based on the determining, the first content collection to the second device for viewing by the second user.

Sharing of content collections

Embodiments for communicating and displaying collections of image and video clip content with an opt-out interstitial are described. In one example embodiment, a device receives interface information about a group of content collections from a server computer system. When a user inputs a selection of a first content collection, the device displays images and video clips in a sequence defined by the content collection. Each piece of content is displayed for less than a threshold display time. When the device finishes playing the first content collection, the device presents an opt-out interstitial. Additional content collections generated from content submitted by other client devices can be received from the server computer system, and are presented based on a response input, or a lack of response input, to the opt-out interstitial. Some embodiments include content collections generated by the server computer system, as well as advertising elements presented between content collections.

Media collection navigation with opt-out interstitial

Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for providing shared content collections. The program and method provide for receiving, from a first device of a first user, an indication of first user input to share a content collection between the first user and a second user selected by the first user, the content collection comprising at least one media content item, the second user corresponding to a contact of the first user; storing the content collection in association with the first user and the second user; receiving an indication of second user input to share the content collection with a third user selected by the second user, the third user corresponding to a contact of the second user; and associating the content collection with the third user.

Providing shared content collections within a messaging system

Methods and systems are disclosed for sharing collections of content items in chat sessions. The methods and systems receive a request to share a first content item and present a GUI comprising a first set of options and a second set of options, the first set of options being associated with adding the first content item to a collection of content items that is accessible to a plurality of recipients, the second set of options being associated with sending the first content item to individual recipients. The methods and systems determine a set of target recipients of the first content item and select a content sharing link between a first link to the collection of content items and a second link directly to the first content item. The methods and systems send, to a target recipient, the content sharing link that has been selected.

Sharing content item collections in a chat

A social network image pool system can capture one or more image data items (e.g., image, video) in a temporary persistent post pool. The post pool enables for efficient capture of multiple image data items for publishing in a manner that allows multiple images data items to be captured while preserving the editability of the multiple items before they are published to a social network site.

Social network pooled post capture

Systems and methods are provided for presenting videos in a playback sequence. The systems and methods receive, by a first client device, a message comprising an identifier of a first video from a second client device. The message is generated by the second client device responsive to a request to share the first video from a video playback graphical user interface (GUI) that automatically plays back a first plurality of videos in sequence. The systems and methods receive input by the first client device that selects the identifier of the first video. The systems and methods, in response to receiving the input, launch, by the first client device, the video playback GUI that automatically plays back a second plurality of videos in sequence and present, by the first client device, the first video corresponding to the identifier before presenting the second plurality of videos in the sequence.

Video sharing system

A method and a system include receiving a request from a client device to view a media content item, determining at least one comment associated with a respective user profile from a set of connected profiles, generating a summary comments selectable item based at least in part on the respective user profile, causing a display of playback of the media content item and the summary comments selectable item in response to the request to view the media content item, and during the playback of the media content item at the particular time, causing a display of at least one comment.

Media content playback and comments management

A classification based notification system is disclosed which performs operations that include: accessing user profile data associated with a user account associated with a client device, the user profile data including a list of user connections; designating a notification type to a portion of the list of user connections, the notification type corresponding to an alert attribute; receiving a notification from a user connection from among the portion of the list of user connections at the client device; and presenting an alert based on the alert attribute that corresponds with the notification type associated with the portion of the list of user connections at the client device.

User classification based notification

Embodiments described herein include an expressive icon system to present an animated graphical icon, wherein the animated graphical icon is generated by capture facial tracking data at a client device. In some embodiments, the system may track and capture facial tracking data of a user via a camera associated with a client device (e.g., a front facing camera, or a paired camera), and process the facial tracking data to animate a graphical icon.

Animated expressive icon

A system and method for presentation of computer vision (e.g., augmented reality, virtual reality) using user data and a user code is disclosed. A client device can detect an image feature (e.g., scannable code) in one or more images. The image feature is determined to be linked to a user account. User data from the user account can then be used to generate one or more augmented reality display elements that can be anchored to the image feature in the one or more images.

Coded vision system

A third-party user input content item is presented. A content sharing function is invoked responsive to determining user selection of a content sharing graphical element. The content sharing function comprises presentation of a destination graphical element identifying a first content sharing destination. The first content sharing destination is locked. A combination graphical element is user-selectable to invoke a combination function. Responsive to determining user selection of the combination graphical element, the combination function is invoked to access a second user input content item and combine the third-party user input content item with the second user input content item to create a combined user input content item. The first content sharing destination is unlocked and the user is enabled to share the combined user input content item to the unlocked first content sharing destination.

Unlocking sharing destinations in an interaction system

Aspects of the present disclosure involve providing a platform user notification to users in a chat session. A user device receives from a server chat status message data for a chat session. The user device detects a specified platform being used by a user in the chat session based on the chat status message data. The user device provides a chat session user interface a platform presence icon associated with the user indicating that the user is using the specified platform.

System for new platform awareness

Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for adding time-based captions to captured video. The program and method provide for displaying, by a messaging application, a preview user interface for previewing and editing captured video in order to generate a media content item, the preview user interface including an interface element which is selectable to switch to a captions user interface for adding a caption to the media content item; switching, in response to first user input selecting the interface element, to the captions user interface which is configured to receive user input for caption content and a duration to display the caption content; receiving, via the captions user interface, second user input for the caption content and the duration; and generating the media content item based on the caption content and the duration to display the caption content.

Adding time-based captions to captured video within a messaging system

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Nathan Kenneth Boyd