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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2022
Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US);
Stuart Matheson, Toronto, CA;
Laura Smith, Toronto, CA;
Allison Vaughan, Denver, CO (US);
David Whyte, Toronto, CA;
Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US);
Abstract
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and a method for generating an avatar. The program and method perform operations comprising delivering, by a messaging server, a notification to a client device that identifies a fashion item for customizing an avatar of a user; causing the notification comprising the fashion item to be displayed on the client device; receiving, by the messaging server, a request from the client device to access the fashion item; determining that the request from the client device to access the fashion item has been received prior to expiration of a scarcity parameter of the fashion item; and enabling the client device to access the fashion item in response to determining that the request from the client device has been received prior to the expiration of the scarcity parameter of the fashion item.