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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 18, 2023
Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US);
Nathan Kenneth Boyd, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Daniel Vincent Grippi, New York, NY (US);
David Phillip Taitz, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Xingnan Xia, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems are disclosed for providing shortcuts to sharing private collections of content items. The methods and systems receive, by a device associated with a first user, a request to share a first content item with one or more recipients and in response, presenting a plurality of shortcuts, each of the plurality of shortcuts associated with different groups of recipients. The methods and systems receive input that selects a first shortcut of the plurality of shortcuts, the first shortcut being associated with a first group of recipients and, in response, present an option to add the first content item to a collection of content items and share the collection of content items with the first group of recipients.