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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 14, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 06, 2017
Whatsapp Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Charles Donald Deets, Jr., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Randall Sarafa, San Francisco, CA (US);
Anton Borzov, Palo Alto, CA (US);
WhatsApp Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for identifying and providing highlight messages from a group messaging thread. For example, systems and methods described herein detect when a group messaging thread participant becomes absent from the group messaging thread, and identifies one or more highlight messages that were submitted to the group messaging thread while the participant was absent. Systems and methods described herein identify highlight messages that are specific to the absent participant, such that when the participant again accesses the group messaging thread, the participant can review the identified highlight messages in order to quickly 'catch up' on the group messaging thread without having to read each electronic message submitted to the group messaging thread during the participant's absence.