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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:
Dec. 06, 2022

Filed:

Mar. 17, 2021
Applicant:

Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US);

Inventors:

Jonathan Brody, Marina Del Rey, CA (US);

Joseph Engelman, New York, NY (US);

Robert Lin, Toronto, CA;

Gaurav Misra, New York, NY (US);

Kimberly A. Phifer, Brooklyn, NY (US);

Sriram Raman, Brooklyn, NY (US);

Jay Sani, New York, NY (US);

Assignee:

Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/258 (2011.01); H04N 21/81 (2011.01); H04N 21/84 (2011.01); H04W 4/38 (2018.01); H04W 4/029 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/25841 (2013.01); H04N 21/8126 (2013.01); H04N 21/8153 (2013.01); H04N 21/84 (2013.01); H04W 4/029 (2018.02); H04W 4/38 (2018.02);
Abstract

Method for generating media content items based on location information starts with the server system receiving from a first computing device an electronic communication including location information from a location sensor coupled to the first client computing device. Server system then determines a current activity of a first user of the first client computing device based on the location information; generating a media content item including a map display based on the location information and at least one of: (i) an avatar of the first user engaged in the current activity, (ii) a status message associated with the current activity of the first user, or (iii) a status message associated with a map location on the map display. Server system then causes the media content item to be displayed on a display screen of at least one of a plurality of client computing devices. Other embodiments are described herein.


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