Snap Inc.

Yansong Liu

Chamal Samaranayake

Jacob Andreou

Sebastian Gil

Tengfei Li

Andy Ly

Jianwei Tu

Yang Dai

Celia Nicole Mourkogiannis

Nathan Kenneth Boyd

Edward Koai

Siqi Chen

Khoi Tran

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

Among other things, embodiments of the present disclosure improve the functionality of electronic messaging software and systems by allowing senders to transmit messages and content using a messaging system, and recipients to access such messages and content, even if the recipients do not have access to the messaging system.

Application-independent messaging system

Growing community of inventors

Marina Del Ray, CA, United States of America

Yansong Liu