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

Kirk Ouimet

Chamal Samaranayake

David Phillip Taitz

Benedict Copping

William Jiajun Wu

Kaveh Anvaripour

Ranidu Lankage

Edward Koai

Evan Spiegel

Sheldon Chang

David Michael Hornsby

Matthew Lee Cook

Ebony James Charlton

Donald Giovannini

Christine Barron

Chinmay Lonkar

Omer Cansizoglu

Devin Doty

Yamill Antonio Vallecillo

Yiwen Zhan

Zachary Lupei

Yue Hu

Yu Wang

Charles Melbye

Dongguang Zhao

Timothy Kautz

Chiung-Fu Shih

Jiawen Zeng

Brian Yee

Mai Chi Tran

Wenbin Chen

Zuoyou Gu

Lu Lu

Jong-Hwi Lee

Alex Beltyukov

Daniel Moreno

Suraj Vindana Samaranayake

Kameron Sheffield

Georgiy Kassabli

Vu Tran

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

Manny Jerrold Adler

Teresa Lieh

Christopher Jonathan Luc

Siqi Chen

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

Imani Ritchards

Maryam Daneshi

Sherif Mohamed

Shannon Ward

Newar Choukeir

Djan Belli

Michael Joseph DiBenedetto

Peter Lapin

Khoi Tran

Daniel M Silva

Isabelle Albi

Anton Bredykhin

Sergio Azua-Izeta

Tabari Williams

Senthil Karthikeyan Sundaram

Evan Shaw

Maxim Maximov Lazarov

Jinwoo Kim

Yiwei Ma

Yansong Liu

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

Display screen or portion thereof with a graphical user interface

A sender holds a first platform account with an interaction system. The sender selects a content item to be shared with a recipient. In response to determining that a recipient identifier of the recipient is not linked to a platform account, an off-platform communication is transmitted to a second user device associated with the recipient identifier. The off-platform communication is in an electronic format supported by the second user device and contains a user-selectable registration link. In response to detecting establishment of a second platform account linked to the recipient identifier, the recipient is enabled to access the content item on the second user device via a user interface provided by an interaction application. A relationship between the first platform account and the second platform account is established within the interaction system.

External messaging function for an interaction system

Display screen or portion thereof with a transitional graphical user interface

First content data is presented within a preview interface. The preview interface is a user interface presented to a user prior to transmission of content data to third-party users. A plurality of modification indicia is presented within the preview interface. Each of the plurality of modification indicia is associated with a respective modification function. The plurality of modification indicia includes a combination indicium associated with a combination function. Responsive to detection of user selection of the combination indicium, the combination function is activated. The activating of the combination function comprises causing presentation of a combination interface enabling the user to access second content data and combine the first content data with the second content data to create combined content data.

Combining content in a preview state

Among other things, embodiments of the present disclosure improve the functionality of electronic messaging software and systems by automatically analyzing media content associated with a user and generating collections of such content (e.g., 'stories') based on varying criteria.

Generation of electronic media content collections

In one or more implementations, user content items generated using a client application may be shared with users that are not contacts of the user within the client application. A user interface that indicates a number of recipients of the user content item may be generated that also includes a first section that displays the user content item and a second section to add text content to the user content item. In various examples, one or more classifications may be associated with the user content item.

Generating modified user content that includes additional text content

Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for providing permissions for accessing shared content collections. The program and method provide for receiving, from a first device associated with 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 within a messaging application; storing the content collection in association with the first user and the second user; providing the first user with a first set of permissions for accessing the content collection; and providing the second user with a second set of permissions for accessing the content collection, the second set of permissions being more restrictive than the first set of permissions.

Providing permissions for accessing shared content collections

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Nathan Kenneth Boyd