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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 19, 2023
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Bartosz Ciechanowski, Woodside, CA (US);
Bhaskar P. Sarma, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
William R. Dahlberg, San Francisco, CA (US);
Eugene Bistolas, Kihei, HI (US);
Olivier Gutknecht, San Francisco, CA (US);
Nathaniel Begeman, Saratoga, CA (US);
Assignee:
APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/14 (2008.12); H04L 51/08 (2021.12); H04L 51/216 (2021.12); H04L 51/58 (2021.12); H04M 1/72436 (2020.12);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/14 (2012.12); H04L 51/216 (2022.04); H04M 1/72436 (2020.12); H04L 51/08 (2012.12); H04L 51/58 (2022.04);
Abstract
A text messaging system that allows messaging apps to send one or more layer identifiers that can specify content for a layer and Z depth of that layer relative to other layers in a text message transcript such as a sent message layer and a received message layer.