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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 26, 2024
Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US);
Benjamin Lo, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Celia Nicole Mourkogiannis, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Ibrahem Shekoni, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Yamill Antonio Vallecillo, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US);
Abstract
A carousel module that enables a user of an application to access related entities which may be friends where the friends are friends to the user within a messaging system. The carousel module accesses profile information of the friends from the messaging system and makes the profile information available within the application. The carousel module provides new functions related to friends for the user within the application. Methods include a carousel module accessing from a messaging system a list of friends of a user of an application, the list of friends indicating friends of a user within the messaging system. The methods include causing a carousel to be displayed for the user on a computing device and causing a status within the application of the friends of the carousel to be displayed on the computing device.