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Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2026

Filed:

Jul. 06, 2022
Applicant:

Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US);

Inventors:

Nathan Kenneth Boyd, Los Angeles, CA (US);

Alex Edelsburg, Seattle, WA (US);

Daniel Moreno, Los Angeles, CA (US);

David Paliwoda, London, GB;

Jeremy Baker Voss, Los Angeles, CA (US);

Assignee:

Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/62 (2013.01); H04L 51/043 (2022.01); H04L 51/216 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/6245 (2013.01); H04L 51/043 (2013.01); H04L 51/216 (2022.05);
Abstract

Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system for hiding conversation elements. The system accesses a conversation interface of a messaging application on a web browser and presents the conversation interface in a window associated with the web browser. The conversation interface comprising a plurality of conversation elements. The system determines that one or more inputs received from one or more input devices correspond to a specified combination of inputs. The system, in response to determining that the one or more inputs correspond to a specified combination of inputs, obscures a first subset of the plurality of conversation elements.


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