Ephemeral gallery of visual media messages
US10958608B1 · kind B1 · utility
Assignee
Inventors
Key dates
| Filing date | Jul 29, 2016 |
| Grant date | Mar 23, 2021 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 29, 2036 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L67/568
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
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.
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.