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Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2021

Filed:

Dec. 12, 2018
Applicant:

Twitter, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);

Inventors:

Michael Cvet, San Francisco, CA (US);

Elif Dede, San Francisco, CA (US);

Tommy Chong, San Francisco, CA (US);

Goran Peretin, San Francisco, CA (US);

Michael J. Matczynski, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

Twitter, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/58 (2006.01); H04W 4/12 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 51/16 (2013.01); H04L 51/32 (2013.01); H04W 4/12 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods and systems for generating, identifying, and displaying message threads on a social messaging platform. One of the methods includes receiving a first and second messages posted to a social messaging platform by a user account; determining whether the second message is a reply to the first message posted by the user account; in response, determining if the first message is part of an existing message thread; in response to determining that the first message is not part of an existing thread, assigning a new thread identifier to both the first message and the second message, the thread identifier associating both messages with a new thread; in response to determining that the first message is part of an existing thread, assigning an existing thread identifier obtained from the first message to the second message.


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