公开(公告)号：US10958608B1

公开(公告)日：2021-03-23

申请号：US15224343

申请日：2016-07-29

Applicant: Snap Inc.

Inventor： Nicholas Allen ,  Donald Giovannini ,  Chiayi Lin ,  Robert Murphy ,  Evan Spiegel

IPC: G06F15/16 ,  H04L12/58 ,  G06Q50/00

Abstract: A server maintains a gallery of ephemeral messages respectively comprising visual media content, such as user-provided photographic content or user-provided video content. Each ephemeral message is posted to the gallery by a user for viewing by recipients via recipient devices. At least some of ephemeral messages are augmented by the user with user-provided drawing content and/or text content. In response to a gallery view request from any of the recipient devices, the ephemeral messages in the gallery are displayed on the requesting device in automated sequence, each message being displayed for a respective display duration before display of the next message in the gallery. The gallery has a gallery availability parameter, such as a gallery timer, with the gallery being made unavailable for viewing upon expiry of the gallery availability parameter.

公开(公告)号：US20210006526A1

公开(公告)日：2021-01-07

申请号：US16933205

申请日：2020-07-20

Applicant: Snap Inc.

Inventor： Nicholas Allen ,  Donald Giovannini ,  Chia-Yi Lin ,  Robert Murphy ,  Evan Spiegel

IPC: H04L12/58 ,  G06F3/0482 ,  H04L29/08 ,  G06F3/0484

Abstract: A server has a processor and a memory storing instructions executed by the processor to maintain an ephemeral gallery of ephemeral messages. An ephemeral message is posted to the ephemeral gallery. The ephemeral message has an associated message duration parameter and a gallery participation parameter. An ephemeral message is removed from the ephemeral gallery in response to the identification of an expired gallery participation parameter.