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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 02, 2022
Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US);
Evan Spiegel, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Robert Cornelius Murphy, Venice, CA (US);
Chamal Samaranayake, Venice, CA (US);
SNAP INC., Santa Monica, CA (US);
Abstract
A server has a processor and a memory storing a multiple channel message thread module with instructions executed by the processor to identify when participants at client devices are actively viewing a common message thread at the same time to establish a participant viewing state. An alternate channel communication lock prompt is supplied the client devices in response to the participant viewing state. An alternate channel communication is delivered to the client devices in response to activation of the alternate channel communication lock prompt by at least one participant.