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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 04, 2023
Filed:
Aug. 04, 2021
Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US);
Ty Giacalone, Seattle, WA (US);
Donald Giovannini, Venice, CA (US);
Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US);
Abstract
In some examples, a computer-implemented method includes accessing a contact database of a sending user, the contact database includes a plurality of contact records, each contact record of the plurality of contact records being associated with a respective user and including respective graphic data, identifying a first set of contact records of the plurality of contact records, each contact record of the first set of contact records having common graphic data as part of the respective graphic data, automatically including the first set of contact records in a contact group of a messaging application of the sending user, detecting a send message operation by a messaging application of the sending user, and causing presentation of a user-selectable graphic icon associated with the contact group within the messaging application, the user-selectable graphic icon being selectable by the sending user to send a message to the contact group.