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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2023
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2021
Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US);
Haibo Zhao, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and devices are presented for managing communications in an ephemeral communication system. In some embodiments, messages in the system are associated with a default trigger for deleting each message following an initial viewing of the message. A non-ephemeral analysis module analyses elements of the message to identify any content elements indicating that a message status should be changed from a default ephemeral status to a non-ephemeral status. Following identification of such elements in the message, the message status is changed from ephemeral to non-ephemeral. Based on the non-ephemeral message status, a copy of the message may be automatically stored in a non-ephemeral format, or a default trigger for deletion of the message may be changed.