Trends in a messaging platform
Granted: March 24, 2020
Patent Number:
10601749
A method of operating a messaging platform, including: obtaining, for a first profile of the messaging platform, a trending entity within a first topic of interest to the first profile; accessing a first plurality of messages classified as the first topic of interest; retrieving a subset of the first plurality of messages corresponding to the trending entity; and sending content associated with the subset for display to a user of the first profile.
Method and system for online conversion attribution
Granted: March 17, 2020
Patent Number:
10594767
A system for online conversion attribution. The system includes a short uniform resource locator (URL) service programmed to, in response to receiving a short URL from a device: provide a cookie that includes a short URL ID to the device, and provide a short URL descriptor including the short URL ID to a user mapping service. The system further includes the user mapping service programmed to receive the short URL descriptor, receive a social media descriptor including a social media ID,…
Trends in a messaging platform
Granted: March 17, 2020
Patent Number:
10592539
A method of operating a messaging platform, including: obtaining, for a first profile, a first and a second topic of interest, a first intra-profile (IP) weight for the first topic of interest, and a second IP weight for the second topic of interest; obtaining a first plurality of trending entities for the first topic and a first plurality of intra-topic (IT) weights for the first plurality of trending entities; obtaining a second plurality of trending entities for the second topic and a…
Capture, sharing, and display of a personal video vignette
Granted: March 17, 2020
Patent Number:
10592089
A method and system for capturing, sharing, viewing, and/or displaying one or more video videos. A user of a computing device performs a gesture involving contacting a touch sensitive display. In response, a video segment is captured while the user maintains contact with the touch sensitive display. Upon releasing contact with the touch sensitive display, recording of the video segment is ceased. In one or more embodiments of the invention, the user may then record one or more additional…
Media sharing device with graphical user interface
Granted: March 10, 2020
Patent Number:
D877750
Authentication mechanism
Granted: March 3, 2020
Patent Number:
10581824
A system and method including: receiving, from a client device, an authorization request originating from an authorization module of an application executing on the client device, where the authorization request includes an identifier identifying the client device; causing transmission, based on the identifier, of a verification message to the client device, where the verification message includes a verification code; receiving a confirmation of the verification code from the…
Real time search assistance
Granted: March 3, 2020
Patent Number:
10579635
A system and method for providing real-time search assistance is provided. Incoming queries are analyzed and an in core set of query statistics is maintained to enable a current suggestion list to be generated. By analyzing each query as it occurs, the suggestion list and associated data stores may be updated in substantially real-time to enable suggestions to be available at the same time as new messages are occurring relating to the subject of the query.
Load balancing deterministically-subsetted processing resources using fractional loads
Granted: March 3, 2020
Patent Number:
10579432
Systems and methods are described for load balancing between a set of servers. Subsets of servers from the set of servers are assigned, via deterministic subsetting, to respective clients from a set of clients. Unlike conventional load balancing techniques using deterministic subsetting, the disclosed techniques enable configuring a client to distribute different amounts of load among the servers in its server subset. Techniques for constructing the subsets are also described.
User interface based on viewable area of a display
Granted: February 25, 2020
Patent Number:
10572102
A method of displaying content in a computing device including a display. The method includes: displaying content on the display; detecting, by the display, a predefined gesture corresponding to an item in the content; displaying, concurrently with the item, additional content associated with the item.
Low-latency HTTP live streaming
Granted: February 18, 2020
Patent Number:
10567461
Implementations provide a structure for low-latency live-video streams using existing content delivery networks. An example method includes creating, at the start of a broadcast stream, a playlist for the broadcast stream that identifies at least two segment files. The content of each of the segment files is a table header. The method also includes transmitting the playlist and each of the segment files to a cache server, obtaining the video broadcast stream as a series of frames, and…
Automated social message stream population
Granted: February 18, 2020
Patent Number:
10565180
A messaging system automatically populates a stream of messages using only a seed selected by the requesting account holder. In one embodiment, the seed includes the streams of one or more of the “top” accounts of the messaging system. Here, “top” is according to any one of a number of different metrics stored in the messaging system. With knowledge of the seed, the messaging system automatically populates a stream for the requesting account holder, without requiring any other…
Analysis of content sharing in a messaging platform
Granted: February 4, 2020
Patent Number:
10554593
A system and method for message analysis, including: receiving, from a client device, a reporting request identifying a first broadcasted message authored by a context account of a messaging platform; identifying, by a computer processor, engagement data corresponding to engagement with the first broadcasted message by a set of engaging accounts of the messaging platform that engaged with the first broadcasted message; generating, using the engagement data and by the computer processor,…
Fast face-morphing using neural networks
Granted: February 4, 2020
Patent Number:
10552977
Systems and methods generate a face-swapped image from a target image using a convolutional neural network trained to apply a source identity to the expression and pose of the target image. The convolutional neural network produces face-swapped images fast enough to transform a video stream. An example method includes aligning the face portion of a target image from an original view to a reference view to generate a target face and generating a swapped face by changing the target face to…
Reconciliation of disjoint user identifer spaces
Granted: February 4, 2020
Patent Number:
10552858
A system is described that receives first user identifiers from a first user space and a first set of hash values generated from a hash function applied to first information that identify users associated with the set of first user identifiers. The system determines a hash value included in both of the first set of hash values and a second set of hash values that are generated from the hash function being applied to second information that identify users associated with second user…
Overlay user interface
Granted: February 4, 2020
Patent Number:
10551995
In a general aspect, a computer-implemented method can include displaying a first user interface window on a touchscreen display of a computing device, where first user interface window includes a plurality of application icons associated with respective applications available for execution by the computing device. The computer-implemented method can further include detecting a touch input on the touchscreen display at a location associated with a first application icon from the…
Media sharing device display screen with transitional graphical user interface
Granted: February 4, 2020
Patent Number:
D874490
Facilitating cross-platform content access
Granted: January 28, 2020
Patent Number:
10547635
A messaging system includes features of gathering information regarding content accessed across multiple applications and/or devices and making that information available to account holders of the messaging system. The messaging system stores data related to accessed content in a plurality of indices and makes that data available to enable account holders to access previously-accessed content, even if the previous access occurred in a different software application, on a different…
Identifying relevant messages in a conversation graph
Granted: January 28, 2020
Patent Number:
10545966
A method, system, and non-transitory computer readable medium for identifying a relevant conversation. The method can include: identifying a conversation graph including identifiers of messages posted by a set of authoring accounts; identifying a relevance score for each authoring account; applying, by a computer processor, a first relevance filter to the conversation graph in order to modify the set of relevance scores; applying, by the computer processor and after applying the first…
Identification of concurrently broadcast time-based media
Granted: January 7, 2020
Patent Number:
10530509
A real time messaging platform identifies an audio snippet of a time-based media (TBM) event. The messaging platform maintains a real time repository of concurrently broadcasting TBM events as well as a historical repository of previously broadcast TBM events. These repositories contain acoustic fingerprints of their respective TBM events. The messaging platform matches an acoustic fingerprint of the audio snippet with one of the stored acoustic fingerprints to identify the TBM event in…
Inter-application delegated authentication
Granted: January 7, 2020
Patent Number:
10530774
Disclosed is a system for delegating authentication of an untrusted application executing on a client device. For delegated authentication, an untrusted application relies on a trusted application executing in the same environment for authentication purposes. The delegated authentication process avoids requiring the user of the untrusted application to provide authentication credentials. The disclosed system for delegating authentication enables any trusted application executing in the…
