TECHNIQUES FOR EPHEMERAL MESSAGING WITH REMOTE EPHEMERAL MODE CONFIGURATION
Granted: December 7, 2017
Application Number:
20170353416
Techniques for ephemeral messaging with remote ephemeral mode configuration are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus may comprise a messaging component operative to receive a messaging update at a messaging client on the client device from a messaging system; determine a message thread associated with the messaging update; and determine that the messaging update indicates a transition to an ephemeral mode for the message thread; and a user interface component operative to configure…
Methods and Systems for Displaying Messages in an Asynchronous Order
Granted: December 7, 2017
Application Number:
20170353414
Exemplary embodiments relate to techniques for introducing asynchronous messaging concepts into a synchronous messaging system. As a conversation is carried out, different topics may be identified and highlighted as separate threads within the conversation. A new thread may be identified based on a number of factors, including (for example) time between messages, questions raised in a communication, discussions of dates, the inclusion of links, and any mentions of specific names. Further…
Methods and Systems for Distinguishing Messages in a Group Conversation
Granted: December 7, 2017
Application Number:
20170351385
Exemplary embodiments relate to techniques for introducing asynchronous messaging concepts into a synchronous messaging system. As a conversation is carried out, different topics may be identified and highlighted as separate threads within the conversation. A new thread may be identified based on a number of factors, including (for example) time between messages, questions raised in a communication, discussions of dates, the inclusion of links, and any mentions of specific names. The…
Methods and Systems for Assigning Affinity Scores to Contacts
Granted: November 30, 2017
Application Number:
20170344610
Exemplary embodiments relate to techniques for determining social networking or messaging user affinity and engagement coefficients (e.g., a measure of the connectedness between two people in a network). The described techniques are particularly well-suited to cases in which only limited information is available, such as when a new user joins a network and only the user's contacts list is available. The available information may be used to determine a group of existing users to which the…
Methods and Systems for Making Recommendations based on Relationships
Granted: November 30, 2017
Application Number:
20170344553
Exemplary embodiments relate to techniques for determining social networking or messaging user affinity and engagement coefficients (e.g., a measure of the connectedness between two people in a network). The described techniques are particularly well-suited to cases in which only limited information is available, such as when a new user joins a network and only the user's contacts list is available. The available information may be used to determine a group of existing users to which the…
TECHNIQUES FOR MOBILE DEVICE PERSONALIZATION
Granted: November 23, 2017
Application Number:
20170339268
Techniques for mobile device personalization are described. In an embodiment, user credentials for an online service are received at a mobile device kiosk. The user credentials may be authenticated and, upon authentication, user data associated with the user credentials may be transferred to a mobile device of the mobile device kiosk. The user data may be transferred between the mobile device kiosk and a wireless transmitter embedded on a printed circuit board (PCB) of the mobile device.…
TECHNIQUES TO CONVERT MULTI-PARTY CONVERSATIONS TO AN EDITABLE DOCUMENT
Granted: November 23, 2017
Application Number:
20170339087
Techniques to convert multi-party conversations to an editable document are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus may comprise a message queue monitoring component operative to monitor a messaging conversation between two or more messaging participants; and analyze the messaging conversation based on a plurality of domain-specific extractors; a domain selector component operative to determine that a domain detection level for a selected extractor exceeds a threshold; and a document…
TECHNIQUES TO MANAGE CLIENT LOCATION DETECTION
Granted: November 16, 2017
Application Number:
20170332343
Techniques to manage client location detection are described. In one embodiment an apparatus may comprise a location-based services support component and a client management component. The location-based services support component may be operative to determine that a network service is scheduled for a location update from a mobile device, determine a location accuracy based on the network service, and update the network service with a received location of the mobile device. The client…
TECHNIQUES TO TRANSFORM NETWORK RESOURCE REQUESTS TO ZERO RATED NETWORK REQUESTS
Granted: November 16, 2017
Application Number:
20170331959
Techniques to transform network resource requests to zero rated network requests are described. Some embodiments are particularly directed to techniques transform network resource requests on a cellular network to zero rating by replacing the destination of the request with a zero-rated source for the network resource. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may comprise a data store and a network access component. The data store may be operative to store a plurality of zero-rating…
TECHNIQUES FOR DEVICE CONFIGURATION USING MESSAGING HISTORY INFORMATION
Granted: October 12, 2017
Application Number:
20170293623
Techniques for device configuration using messaging history information are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus may comprise a contact list component operative to determine a promotion contact list for the user account; a predicted interest component operative to determine a predicted communication interest for each contact on a promotion contact list; a predicted activity component operative to determine a user predicted likelihood of future activeness on the communication…
TECHNIQUES TO PREDICTIVELY RESPOND TO USER REQUESTS USING NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
Granted: September 28, 2017
Application Number:
20170277667
Techniques to predictively respond to user requests using natural language processing are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus may comprise a client communication component operative to receive a user service request from a user client; an interaction processing component operative to submit the user service request to a memory-based natural language processing component; generate a series of user interaction exchanges with the user client based on output from the memory-based…
TECHNIQUES FOR MESSAGING BOT RICH COMMUNICATION
Granted: August 31, 2017
Application Number:
20170250936
Techniques for messaging bots with rich communication are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus may comprise a messaging component operative to receive a message from a client device; and add the message to a message queue; a message queue monitoring component operative to monitor the message queue; detect that the message indicates messaging bot invocation; and submit the message to a bot framework component based on detecting that the message indicates messaging bot invocation;…
TECHNIQUES FOR MESSAGING BOT APP INTERACTIONS
Granted: August 31, 2017
Application Number:
20170250935
Techniques for messaging bots with interactions within a messaging app are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus may comprise a user interface component operative to receive a messaging bot invocation in a message thread display on a client device; invoke a messaging bot interaction user interface on the client device in combination with the message thread display in response to the messaging bot invocation; receive a messaging bot interaction command via the messaging bot…
TECHNIQUES FOR ANIMATING STICKERS WITH SOUND
Granted: July 20, 2017
Application Number:
20170206697
Techniques for animating stickers with sound include receiving audio input by a first mobile device; animating a selected image according to an energy level of the audio input using a set of animation frames associated with the selected image in a user interface view of an application executing on the first mobile device; and presenting the animated image concurrently with receiving the audio input. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
PIVOT INTERFACE ELEMENT FOR A MESSAGING SYSTEM
Granted: July 13, 2017
Application Number:
20170201575
Exemplary embodiments relate to messaging, and in particular address several aspects of initiating a group conversation. When a user interacts with a messaging system, the system determines whether it is likely that the user intends to start a group conversation or a one-to-one conversation. Intent to start a group conversation can be signaled in a number of ways, such as: type of action requested; interactions with particular UI elements; length of message; analysis of previous user…
TECHNIQUES TO DETECT FOREGROUND PROCESSES
Granted: June 22, 2017
Application Number:
20170180222
Techniques to detect foreground processes are described. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may comprise a client data reception component operative to receive a series of active process lists from a plurality of client devices via the networking interface controller on the server device; a graph construction component operative to construct a plurality of active process graphs based on the active process lists, wherein each client device is associated with a single active…
TECHNIQUES TO CONFIGURE MEDIA PACKAGES
Granted: June 22, 2017
Application Number:
20170177643
Techniques to configure media packages are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus may comprise a client support component operative to receive search term information from a client device at a server device; and configure the client device with a selected one or more high-priority media items; a media server search component operative to transmit the search term information to a plurality of media servers; receive a plurality of media items from the plurality of media servers in…
TECHNIQUES FOR EPHEMERAL MESSAGING WITH A MESSAGE QUEUE
Granted: June 15, 2017
Application Number:
20170171132
Techniques for ephemeral message are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus may comprise a delayed-action worker module operative to wake according to a wake timer; determine a current update object for a delayed-action cursor for a recipient update queue for a messaging system, the delayed-action cursor associated with an action delay for the recipient update queue; determine a delayed-action activity for the current update object; perform the delay-action activity for the current…
TECHNIQUES FOR EPHEMERAL MESSAGING WITH LEGACY CLIENTS
Granted: June 15, 2017
Application Number:
20170171131
Techniques for ephemeral message are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus may comprise a sender inbound messaging component operative to receive an incoming update for a message queue at a client support server for a messaging system from a messaging client on a client device; a legacy client support component operative to determine whether the messaging client supports a client-side time-to-live setting; determine whether the incoming update should be associated with a…
TECHNIQUES TO REMOTELY CONFIGURE INTERFACE SETTINGS
Granted: May 25, 2017
Application Number:
20170147182
Techniques to remotely configure interface settings for messaging clients are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus may comprise a messaging component operative to receive a user interface configuration object at a first messaging client on the first client device, the first messaging client on the first client device associated with a first user account with a messaging system, the user interface configuration object indicating a user interface setting specified at a second…
