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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 13, 2021

Filed:

Jun. 23, 2016
Applicant:

Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);

Inventors:

Benjamin S. Langholz, San Francisco, CA (US);

Lucy Congyun Zhang, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Assignee:

FACEBOOK, INC., Menlo Park, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0488 (2013.01); G06F 3/0481 (2013.01); G06F 3/0484 (2013.01); G06F 3/16 (2006.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01); H04N 7/14 (2006.01); G06T 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0488 (2013.01); G06F 3/0481 (2013.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/04842 (2013.01); G06F 3/04847 (2013.01); G06F 3/04886 (2013.01); G06F 3/16 (2013.01); G06T 11/001 (2013.01); H04L 51/02 (2013.01); H04L 51/066 (2013.01); H04L 51/10 (2013.01); H04L 51/16 (2013.01); H04L 51/32 (2013.01); H04N 5/23216 (2013.01); H04N 7/142 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04803 (2013.01); G06T 2200/24 (2013.01); H04L 51/04 (2013.01);
Abstract

One or more embodiments described herein include methods and systems of capturing and sending multimedia content items as electronic message. More specifically, systems and methods described herein provide users the ability to easily and effectively capture multimedia content items for inclusion in a communication session without navigating away from the communication session. Additionally, systems and methods described herein allow a multimedia content item to be sent to one or more co-users immediately following the capture of the multimedia content item without further user interaction. In other words, the system and methods can capture and automatically send a multimedia content item in response to a single user interaction.


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