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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 29, 2016
Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US);
Nicholas Allen, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Donald Giovannini, Venice, CA (US);
Chiayi Lin, Venice, CA (US);
Robert Murphy, Venice, CA (US);
Evan Spiegel, Venice, CA (US);
Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US);
Abstract
A server maintains a gallery of ephemeral messages respectively comprising visual media content, such as user-provided photographic content or user-provided video content. Each ephemeral message is posted to the gallery by a user for viewing by recipients via recipient devices. At least some of ephemeral messages are augmented by the user with user-provided drawing content and/or text content. In response to a gallery view request from any of the recipient devices, the ephemeral messages in the gallery are displayed on the requesting device in automated sequence, each message being displayed for a respective display duration before display of the next message in the gallery. The gallery has a gallery availability parameter, such as a gallery timer, with the gallery being made unavailable for viewing upon expiry of the gallery availability parameter.