US 12,170,640 B2
Media gallery sharing and management
David James Kennedy, Toronto (CA); Diego Muñoz Escalante, Toronto (CA); Arianne Spool, New York, NY (US); and Yinghua David Xia, Toronto (CA)
Assigned to SNAP INC., Santa Monica, CA (US)
Filed by Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US)
Filed on Nov. 27, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/520,365.
Application 18/520,365 is a continuation of application No. 17/852,163, filed on Jun. 28, 2022, granted, now 11,870,745.
Prior Publication US 2024/0098051 A1, Mar. 21, 2024
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/0484 (2022.01); H04L 51/10 (2022.01); H04L 67/146 (2022.01); G06F 3/04817 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 51/10 (2013.01) [G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/0484 (2013.01); H04L 67/146 (2013.01); G06F 3/04817 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
receiving a request from a first device to share a media gallery that includes a user avatar with a second device;
generating, in response to receiving the request, metadata associated with the media gallery, the metadata including an identifier of the user avatar;
generating a message associated with the media gallery, the message including the identifier of the user avatar; and
transmitting the message to the second device, the message causing the second device to generate the media gallery that includes the user avatar.