Apple Inc.

Timothy P Horton

Samuel M Weinig

Taylor Gerard Carrigan

Thomas M Alsina

Nathan De Vries

Chance Graham

Chanaka G Karunamuni

Kevin J Lindeman

A first messaging app, in one embodiment receives text and detects that the text includes a URL that refers to audio or audiovisual media content in a catalog of media content, and the messaging app obtains metadata about the media content and transmits the metadata to a second messaging app. Both the first and the second messaging app can operate, through interprocess communication, with its own music extension app that displays a user interface within a view hosted by the respective messaging app.

Conversion of text relating to media content and media extension apps

A text messaging system which converts at the sending device a detected URL in a text message to a representative image or other content and transmits the representative image (which represents the URL) to one or more messaging servers for delivery to a receiving device. In one embodiment, the messaging servers do not have access to clear text of either the representative image or the URL. In one embodiment, the retrieval occurs in response to a selection of a send command. Heuristics (such as rules) can be used to determine whether to convert a detected URL.

Conversion of detected URL in text message

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San Jose, CA, United States of America

Timothy P Horton