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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.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2023
Filed:
Jul. 19, 2021
Applicant:
Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US);
Inventors:
Jacob Edward Blackstock, Toronto, CA;
Diego Muñoz Escalante, Toronto, CA;
Matthew Colin Grantham, Toronto, CA;
William Wu, Marina del Rey, CA (US);
Assignee:
Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/048 (2013.01); G06T 11/60 (2006.01); G06V 40/16 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 11/60 (2013.01); G06V 40/161 (2022.01);
Abstract
Among other things, embodiments of the present disclosure improve the functionality of electronic messaging software and systems by providing a customized display of avatars corresponding to users exchanging electronic communications, such as short message service (SMS) or multimedia service (MMS) texts and emails. The appearance of the displayed avatars may be dynamically altered based on the actions taken by the users, as well as based on the content of the messages between the users or information from other sources.