Patent Applications by Snap Inc. on April 17th, 2025

Snap Inc.: 11 patent applications

Snap Inc. has applied for patents in the areas of H04L51/216 (2), G02C11/00 (1), G06T11/00 (1), H04L67/50 (1), H04L51/52 (1) G02C11/10 (1), G06F1/3231 (1), G06F3/0482 (1), G06F16/51 (1), G06F16/7867 (1)

With keywords such as: message, thread, user, device, videos, image, systems, methods, state, and subset in patent application abstracts.

Patent Applications by Snap Inc.

20250123502. JOINT MOUNTING MECHANISM FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE HOUSING ASSEMBLY_simplified_abstract_(snap inc.)

Inventor(s): Emily Lauren Clopp of Santa Monica CA US for snap inc., Jun Lin of Sherman Oaks CA US for snap inc., Douglas Wayne Moskowitz of Marina Del Rey CA US for snap inc., Stephen Andrew Steger of Los Angeles CA US for snap inc., Nicholas Daniel Streets of Santa Monica CA US for snap inc.

IPC Code(s): G02C11/00, G02C5/10, G02C5/22

CPC Code(s): G02C11/10

Abstract: a housing assembly for an electronics-enabled device includes a housing wall having parallel inner and outer faces, with a hinge base affixed through the wall. the hinge base has a shank extending through the wall and a joint mount exterior to the housing for hingedly mounting an external component. an anchor plate inside the housing is welded to the shank, preventing axial withdrawal of the hinge base by obstruction against the inner face. the welded connection rotationally keys the anchor plate to the hinge base. the assembly enables integration of electronics components mounted on the anchor plate, which can serve as a thermal conductor between heat-generating components and an external heatsink via the hinge base. in electronics-enabled eyewear, the hinge base provides hinged connection of a temple to an eyewear frame. manufacturing involves locating the hinge base and anchor plate, translationally fastening them together threadedly, and spot-welding for rotational keying.

20250123672. DETECTING WEAR STATUS OF WEARABLE DEVICE_simplified_abstract_(snap inc.)

Inventor(s): Jason Heger of Louisville CO US for snap inc., Dunxu Hu of Los Angeles CA US for snap inc., Eric Nachtigall of Broomfield CO US for snap inc., Gerald Nilles of Los Angeles CA US for snap inc., Ugur Olgun of Marina Del Rey CA US for snap inc., Praveen Babu Vadivelu of Erie CO US for snap inc.

IPC Code(s): G06F1/3231, G06F1/16, G06F3/14, H04B17/318

CPC Code(s): G06F1/3231

Abstract: methods and systems are disclosed for detecting whether a wearable device is being worn by a user. the system transmits a radio signal from a first communication device of a wearable device to a second communication device of the wearable device and measures a signal strength associated with the radio signal received by the second communication device. the system compares the signal strength to a threshold value and generates an indication of a wear status associated with the wearable device based on comparing the signal strength to the threshold value.

20250123727. MESSAGING APPLICATION WITH CONVERSATION FILTERING_simplified_abstract_(snap inc.)

Inventor(s): Nathan Kenneth Boyd of Los Angeles CA US for snap inc., Daniel Moreno of New York NY US for snap inc., David Phillip Taitz of Los Angeles CA US for snap inc., Jeremy Baker Voss of Los Angeles CA US for snap inc., Yu Wang of Mill Valley CA US for snap inc.

IPC Code(s): G06F3/0482

CPC Code(s): G06F3/0482

Abstract: aspects of the present disclosure involve a system for filtering conversations. the system generates for display, by a messaging application, a plurality of shortcut options, each of the plurality of shortcut options comprising a respective filtering criterion. in response to receiving input that selects a given shortcut option of the plurality of shortcut options, the system retrieves the filtering criterion associated with the given shortcut option. the system searches a plurality of conversations to identify a subset of conversations that match the filtering criterion. the system generates for display together with the plurality of shortcut options, a plurality of representations of the identified subset of conversations in which one or more messages have been exchanged between a user and one or more friends of the user.

20250124074. REDIRECTION TO DIGITAL CONTENT BASED ON IMAGE-SEARCH_simplified_abstract_(snap inc.)

Inventor(s): Kirk Ouimet of Orem UT US for snap inc., Rong Yan of Marina Del Rey CA US for snap inc., Yantao Zheng of Sunnyvale CA US for snap inc., Timothy Michael Sehn of Marina Del Rey CA US for snap inc., Evan Spiegel of Los Angeles CA US for snap inc.

IPC Code(s): G06F16/51, G06F16/583

CPC Code(s): G06F16/51

Abstract: in other embodiments, a method to perform image-based searching may include receiving a group of images from a content owner; creating an index using the group of images; receiving a further image from a mobile computing device of a user; determining a correlation between the further image and the index; and/or directing the mobile computing device of the user to content of the content owner, responsive to the determining of the correlation.

20250124081. SEARCHING AND RANKING PERSONALIZED VIDEOS_simplified_abstract_(snap inc.)

Inventor(s): Alexander Mashrabov of Los Angeles CA US for snap inc., Evgenii Krokhalev of London GB for snap inc., Sofia Savinova of Sochi RU for snap inc., Ivan Babanin of Saratov RU for snap inc.

IPC Code(s): G06F16/78, G06F16/738, G06F40/247, H04L51/10

CPC Code(s): G06F16/7867

Abstract: provided are systems and methods for searching and ranking personalized videos. an example method includes receiving a user selection of a category from a set of pre-determined categories, selecting, from a pool of videos, a first subset of videos, where a first video from the first subset of videos is associated with the category and having a calculated value of a performance metric, selecting, from the pool of videos, a second subset of videos, where a second video from the second subset of videos is associated with the category and having an unknown value for the performance metric, generating, based on a predetermined rule, a third set of videos, where the third set of videos includes at least one video from the first subset of videos and at least one video from the second subset of videos, and presenting the third set of videos via a communication chat.

20250124353. CLOUD BASED MACHINE LEARNING_simplified_abstract_(snap inc.)

Inventor(s): Eric Buehl of Santa Monica CA US for snap inc., Jordan Hurwitz of Marina del Rey CA US for snap inc., Sergey Tulyakov of Santa Monica CA US for snap inc., Shubham Vij of Los Angeles CA US for snap inc.

IPC Code(s): G06N20/00, G06F9/445, H04L67/10

CPC Code(s): G06N20/00

Abstract: disclosed are various embodiments for implementing computational tasks in a cloud environment in one or more operating system level virtualized containers. a parameter file can specify different parameters including hardware parameters, library parameters, user code parameters, and job parameters (e.g., sets of hyperparameters). the parameter file can be converted via a mapping and implemented in a cloud-based container platform.

20250124611. APPLYING AUGMENTED REALITY ANIMATIONS TO AN IMAGE_simplified_abstract_(snap inc.)

Inventor(s): Xin An of New York NY US for snap inc., Jim T. Diep of Los Angeles CA US for snap inc., Jacob Knipfing of Culver City CA US for snap inc., Matthew Mahar of San Francisco CA US for snap inc., Tony Mathew of Irvine CA US for snap inc., Wentao Shang of Los Angeles CA US for snap inc., Sarah Werum of Oakland GA US for snap inc., Lingzhi Zhang of Foster City CA US for snap inc.

IPC Code(s): G06T11/00

CPC Code(s): G06T11/00

Abstract: methods and systems are disclosed for applying augmented reality animations to an image. the methods and systems access an image and select an augmented reality (ar) experience to apply to the image, the ar experience comprising one or more ar element animations. the methods and systems repeatedly apply the ar experience to the image over a specified time interval to overlay the one or more ar element animations on the image. the methods and systems generate a video having a duration corresponding to the specified time interval in response to repeatedly applying the ar experience to the image, the video depicting the one or more ar element animations on the image.

20250124924. INNER SPEECH PRODUCTION PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT AND QUANTIFICATION_simplified_abstract_(snap inc.)

Inventor(s): Elizabeth Izakson of Tel Aviv IL for snap inc., Meir Meshulam of Princeton NJ US for snap inc., Hagar Yamin of Tel Aviv IL for snap inc., Assif Ziv of Beit Ytzhak*Sha'ar Hefer IL for snap inc.

IPC Code(s): G10L15/24, G06F3/01, G10L15/01, G10L15/06, G10L15/187, G10L15/22

CPC Code(s): G10L15/24

Abstract: methods and systems are disclosed for measuring and quantifying inner speech production. the methods and systems present an instruction to a user to produce inner speech and collect electromyograph (emg) data corresponding to the inner speech. the methods and systems process the emg data by a machine learning model to generate a prediction comprising a word or phrase corresponding to the inner speech and concurrently generate an evaluation of inner speech production and detection.

20250125657. NFC COMMUNICATION AND QI WIRELESS CHARGING OF EYEWEAR_simplified_abstract_(snap inc.)

Inventor(s): Shaheen Moubedi of Los Angeles CA US for snap inc., Ugur Olgun of Marina Del Rey CA US for snap inc.

IPC Code(s): H02J50/00, H01Q1/27, H01Q7/00, H02J50/80

CPC Code(s): H02J50/005

Abstract: eyewear that is configured to be wirelessly charged and also wirelessly communicate bidirectionally using a single coil in a front end. the single coil forms a single compact antenna that is configured for both near field data communications (nfc) and also for wireless charging when the eyewear is closely coupled to a wireless power charger having a transceiver. wireless charging and bidirectional communication of the eyewear can be performed using qi expanded power profile (epp), which is an open interface standard developed by the wireless power consortium.

20250126084. USER PRESENCE INDICATION DATA MANAGEMENT_simplified_abstract_(snap inc.)

Inventor(s): Laurent Desserrey of Los Angeles CA US for snap inc., Dylan Shane Eirinberg of Venice CA US for snap inc., Jeremy Baker Voss of Los Angeles CA US for snap inc.

IPC Code(s): H04L51/043, H04L51/216, H04L51/52, H04L67/50, H04L67/54

CPC Code(s): H04L51/043

Abstract: a method and a system include receiving a first message from a first device associated with a first user, the first message being associated with a group conversation between plural users including the first user and a second user, the group conversation comprising a main conversation view and first experience page; determining the first message was transmitted from the first experience page; detecting the first user being active within the first experience page and the second user being active within the main conversation view; and causing display of the first message, a name of the first user, and a page source graphical element indicating the first experience page on a second device associated with the second user.

20250126087. MAINTAINING A MESSAGE THREAD WITH OPT-IN PERMANENCE FOR ENTRIES_simplified_abstract_(snap inc.)

Inventor(s): Evan Spiegel of Los Angeles CA US for snap inc., Timothy Sehn of Marina Del Rey CA US for snap inc.

IPC Code(s): H04L51/216

CPC Code(s): H04L51/216

Abstract: a server has a processor and a memory storing a message thread module with instructions executed by the processor to maintain a message thread between users of client devices. the message thread module serves a message thread with a new text entry to a client device in response to a request for the message thread from a user. message thread state change is collected from the client device, where the message thread state change represents an indication to automatically delete the new text entry of the message thread after the duration of a transitory display period on the client device unless an indication of a gesture applied to a display screen presenting the new text entry of the message thread is received from the client device during the transitory display period. the message thread state change is queued at the server along with additional message thread state changes associated with the collecting operation performed for additional users associated with the message thread. the message thread is revised based upon the message thread state change and the additional message thread state changes to form shared message thread state. the shared message thread state is stored. the shared message thread state is supplied in response to a request for the message thread from a user.

Snap Inc. patent applications on April 17th, 2025