Snap Inc.

Google Inc.

Sheridan Kates

Evan Spiegel

Jonathan Dale Brody

Walton Lin

Andrew Lin

Amer Shahnawaz

Daniel Amitay

Travis Harrison Kroll Green

Timothy Jordan Garcia

Suraj Vindana Samaranayake

Jeremy Brand Sussman

Jeffrey Arthur Johnson

Arnaud Sahuguet

Gaurav Misra

Daniel Vincent Grippi

Maxwell Gale

Aaron Baeten Brown

Amir Menachem Mané

Marcel Mordechay Yung

Leonid Gorkin

John Michael Rauser

Alexandra Baugher

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

Among other things, embodiments of the present disclosure improve the functionality of electronic messaging and imaging software and systems by determining the current activities of users based on location sensor information from the users' computing devices and generating customized media content items based on their activities. The media content can be generated for a variety of topics and shared with other users. For example, media content (e.g., images or video) can be generated and displayed on a user's computing device, as well as transmitted to other users via electronic communications, such as short message service (SMS) or multimedia service (MMS) texts and emails.

Location-based virtual avatars

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.

Methods and systems for providing a report based on a negative keyword may include receiving search query data and advertiser data including a negative keyword, matching the search query data to a negative keyword, and providing display data representing a report including an indication that an advertisement was blocked from being shown in response to a search query based on the negative keyword.

Providing a report based on a negative keyword

A computer-implemented technique is presented. The technique can include selectively initiating, at a mobile computing device including one or more processors, communication between the mobile computing device and a public computing device. The technique can include transmitting, from the mobile computing device, authentication information to the public computing device. The authentication information can indicate access privileges to a private account associated with a user of the mobile computing device. The technique can include receiving, at the mobile computing device, an access inquiry from the public computing device. The access inquiry can indicate an inquiry as to whether the user wishes to login to the private account at the public computing device. The technique can also include transmitting, from the mobile computing device, an access response to the public computing device. The access response can cause the public computing device to provide the user with access to the private account.

Authenticating access to a private account at a public computing device

A computer-implemented method is provided for reducing power consumption of a power source used by a mobile device. The mobile device monitors aspects of its environment to determine if some or all of the device's computing functionality can be handled seamlessly by another nearby device. For example, phone calls can be directed to a landline phone nearby the mobile device. A device usage policy defines how certain functions are to be handled by the mobile device, for example, at a given location or amongst two devices. The mobile device can then disable functionality that is being handled by nearby devices, thereby reducing power consumption by the mobile device.

Reducing power consumption of mobile device through automated environment awareness

A computer-implemented method technique is presented. The technique can include selectively initiating, at a mobile computing device including one or more processors, communication between the mobile computing device and a public computing device. The technique can include transmitting, from the mobile computing device, authentication information to the public computing device. The authentication information can indicate access privileges to a private account associated with a user of the mobile computing device. The technique can include receiving, at the mobile computing device, an access inquiry from the public computing device. The access inquiry can indicate an inquiry as to whether the user wishes to login to the private account at the public computing device. The technique can also include transmitting, from the mobile computing device, an access response to the public computing device. The access response can cause the public computing device to provide the user with access to the private account.

Techniques for authenticating access to a private account at a public computing device using a user's mobile computing device

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Sheridan Kates