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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 2026
Filed:
May. 01, 2023
Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US);
Lien Le Hong Tran, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US);
Abstract
Described herein are techniques for facilitating the communication of text-based messages between end-users who are using messaging applications executing on client-based computing devices with different capabilities. Specifically, the messaging system described herein enables a first end-user to add a message element to a text-based message, which, when received by a message recipient using an augmented reality messaging application, will cause a 3-D avatar representing the message sender, to animate in accordance with a specific avatar animation associated with the message element. The message element may be an emoji, or a special sequence of characters, and may be a visible or invisible (e.g., meta-data) element of the text-based message.