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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.

Patent No.:

US 11126348 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Sep. 21, 2021

Filed:

Feb. 12, 2020

Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for messaging

Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Imran A. Chaudhri, San Francisco, CA (US);

Freddy A. Anzures, San Francisco, CA (US);

Chanaka G. Karunamuni, San Jose, CA (US);

Nicholas V. King, San Jose, CA (US);

Daamun Mohseni, San Jose, CA (US);

Hoan Pham, San Jose, CA (US);

Wan Si Wan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Giancarlo Yerkes, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Darin B. Adler, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Bethany Bongiorno, San Francisco, CA (US);

Justin N. Wood, Los Altos, CA (US);

Roberto Garcia, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Soin Shedlosky, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

Primary Examiner:

Amy M Levy

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0488 (2013.01); G06F 3/0481 (2013.01); G06Q 10/10 (2012.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01); H04M 1/725 (2021.01); G06F 3/041 (2006.01); G06F 3/0484 (2013.01); G06F 40/197 (2020.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/0485 (2013.01); G06T 11/60 (2006.01); G06T 13/00 (2011.01); H04M 1/7243 (2021.01); G06Q 10/02 (2012.01); G06F 3/16 (2006.01); G06T 3/40 (2006.01); H04M 1/72436 (2021.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/04883 (2013.01); G06F 3/0412 (2013.01); G06F 3/0481 (2013.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/0485 (2013.01); G06F 3/04817 (2013.01); G06F 3/04842 (2013.01); G06F 3/04845 (2013.01); G06F 3/04847 (2013.01); G06F 3/04886 (2013.01); G06F 40/197 (2020.01); G06Q 10/107 (2013.01); G06T 11/60 (2013.01); G06T 13/00 (2013.01); H04L 51/04 (2013.01); H04L 51/046 (2013.01); H04L 51/16 (2013.01); H04L 51/18 (2013.01); H04L 51/22 (2013.01); H04M 1/7243 (2021.01); H04N 5/23216 (2013.01); H04N 5/232933 (2018.08); G06F 3/16 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04105 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04803 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04808 (2013.01); G06Q 10/02 (2013.01); G06T 3/40 (2013.01); H04M 1/72436 (2021.01); H04M 2250/22 (2013.01);
Abstract

An electronic device displays a messaging user interface of a message application, including a conversation transcript of a messaging session between a user of the electronic device and a plurality of other users, a message-input area, and a plurality of avatars corresponding to the plurality of other users. The plurality of avatars are displayed as a stack of avatars, with a first avatar of avatars displayed on the top of the stack of avatars. In response to detecting an input by a first contact on the touch-sensitive surface while a focus selector is at a first location in the messaging user interface that corresponds to the first avatar, if the input meets menu-activation-criteria, a menu that contains activatable menu items associated with the first avatar overlaid on the messaging user interface is displayed, and if the input meets avatar-spreading-criteria the plurality of avatars are displayed in an array.

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