Snap Inc.

Yiwen Zhan

Nathan Kenneth Boyd

Andrew Grosvenor Cooper

Suraj Vindana Samaranayake

Yamill Antonio Vallecillo

Vu Tran

Peter Sellis

Benedict Copping

Edward Koai

Matthew Lee Cook

Siqi Chen

Tao Marvin Liu

Mian Zhang

Jeremy Baker Voss

Christie Marie Heikkinen

Newar Husam Al Majid

Kaveh Anvaripour

David Whyte

David Phillip Taitz

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

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

Systems and methods are provided for receiving a background image for a media overlay to be applied to a message comprising an image or video, and at least one smart widget selection, and storing the media overlay comprising the background image and the at least one smart widget selection. The systems and methods further provide for receiving a request for the media overlay to be applied to a message comprising an image or video, analyzing context data associated with a computing device to determine that the media overlay is relevant to at least one aspect of the context data, determining data associated with the at least one smart widget based on the context data, and transmitting to the computing device, the media overlay and data associated with the at least one smart widget.

Dynamic media overlay with smart widget

In one or more implementations, content generated using a client application may be associated with a classification. A number of classifications may be recommended to users of a client application based on alphanumeric characters entered by the users. Additionally, a number of classifications may be recommended to the users of the client application based one or more additional criteria, such as recently used classifications or classifications having at least a threshold frequency of use by additional users of the client application.

Determining classification recommendations for user content

A method starts with a processor receiving a content collection from a second computing device associated with a second user. A processor detects input of text data from a text interface overlaid on top of a display of the content collection and analyzes the text data to identify a first characteristic within the text data. The processor also accessing a plurality of personalized avatars associated with a respective avatar characteristic and determines a selection of personalized avatars that match the first characteristic by comparing the first characteristic against the respective avatar characteristic associated with each of the plurality of personalize avatars. The processor then generates a personalized avatar interface which includes the selection of personalized avatars containing an avatar characteristic that matches the first characteristic, overlays the selection of personalized avatars on the display of the content collection, and communicates a selected personalized avatar to the second computing device.

Avatar recommendation and reply

In one or more implementations, content generated using a client application may be associated with a classification. The content may be accessed based on one or more classifications associated with the content. Content may be generated by a client application executed by a client device of a content creator and sent to a server system that may distribute the content to one or more additional client devices of recipients of the content. The server system may also aggregate content having a same classification.

Client application content classification and discovery

Display screen or portion thereof with a transitional graphical user interface

Display screen or portion thereof with a graphical user interface

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Yiwen Zhan