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Granted Patent B2
US 12,348,467 · App. 18/587,582 · Granted Jul 1, 2025

Messaging system with a carousel of related entities

Inventors: Benjamin Lo (Los Angeles, CA); Celia Nicole Mourkogiannis (Los Angeles, CA); Ibrahem Shekoni (Santa Monica, CA); Yamill Antonio Vallecillo (Los Angeles, CA)
Assignee: Snap Inc.
H04L51/046G06F3/0482G06F3/0485G06F16/248
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Patent No.
US 12,348,467
App. No.
18/587,582
Granted
Jul 1, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A carousel module that enables a user of an application to access related entities which may be friends where the friends are friends to the user within a messaging system. The carousel module accesses profile information of the friends from the messaging system and makes the profile information available within the application. The carousel module provides new functions related to friends for the user within the application. Methods include a carousel module accessing from a messaging system a list of friends of a user of an application, the list of friends indicating friends of a user within the messaging system. The methods include causing a carousel to be displayed for the user on a computing device and causing a status within the application of the friends of the carousel to be displayed on the computing device.

Claims (59)

1. A computing system comprising:

one or more computer processors; and

one or more computer-readable mediums storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more computer processors, cause the one or more computer processors to perform operations comprising:

sending, by a carousel component across a wireless link, a message to an interaction platform, the message requesting a list of related entities associated with a user running an application, wherein the application and the carousel component are executed by an interpreter running on the computing system;

receiving, by the carousel component across a wireless link, a response from the interaction platform, the response comprising a list of related entities;

invoking, by the carousel component via the interpreter, a call to the application, the call comprising the list of related entities;

receiving, by the carousel component via the interpreter, a response to the call, the response comprising status information regarding the list of related entities;

causing, by the carousel component, a scrollable carousel comprising the list of related entities to be displayed on a screen of the computing system over a displayed of the application, wherein the list of related entities comprises an indication of a status within the application for each related entity; and

in response to a selection of a related entity of the list of related entities, causing, by the carousel component, a first message to be sent to the interaction platform across a wireless link, wherein the first message indicates the interaction platform is to send a second message to the related entity, the second message comprising a hotlink for the related entity to perform an action associated with the application.

2. The computing system of claim 1 , wherein the list of related entities is ordered based on a number of interactions of related entities of the list of related entities with the user within the interaction platform.

3. The computing system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise:

filtering the list of related entities to exclude related entities of the list of related entities that are running the application to generate a filtered list of related entities.

4. The computing system of claim 1 , wherein the list of related entities are running the application or active within the interaction platform.

5. The computing system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise:

causing to be displayed a geographic area of the application on the screen;

accessing, from the application, location information for related entities of the list of related entities running the application; and

causing indications of the location information of the related entities of the list of related entities that are within the geographic area to be displayed.

6. The computing system of claim 5 , wherein the operations further comprise:

accessing avatar information for the list of related entities from the interaction platform, and wherein the indications are corresponding avatar information.

7. The computing system of claim 1 , wherein the second message comprises an invitation comprising a hotlink for the related entity to run the application.

8. The computing system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise:

reordering the list of related entities based on interactions of related entities of the list of related entities with the user within the application to generate a reordered list of related entities; and

causing the scrollable carousel of the reordered list of related entities to be displayed on the screen of the computing system.

9. The computing system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise:

accessing profiles of the list of related entities from the interaction platform; and

causing the scrollable carousel of the list of related entities to be displayed on the screen of the computing system, wherein related entities of the list of related entities are displayed with one or more fields of the profiles.

10. The computing system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise:

accessing profiles of the list of related entities from the interaction platform;

reordering the list of related entities based on a field of the profiles of the list of related entities; and

causing the scrollable carousel of the reordered list of related entities to be displayed for the user on the computing system.

11. The computing system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise:

in response to a selection of a related entity of the list of related entities,

accessing a location of the related entity from the interaction platform, and

causing to be displayed on the screen an image indicating weather conditions for the location.

12. The computing system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise:

causing a request to be sent to the interaction platform requesting information indicating whether related entities of the list of related entities are running the application.

13. The computing system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise:

accessing performance information indicating performance of related entities of the list of related entities within the application;

selecting top performers of the list of related entities using the performance information; and

causing indications of the top performers to be displayed adjacent to the related entities of the list of related entities displayed in the scrollable carousel.

14. The computing system of claim 1 , wherein related entities of the list of related entities that are running the application are not friends with the user within the application.

15. The computing system of claim 1 , wherein the application is a multiplayer application running on a first server and the interaction platform runs on a second server.

16. A method performed on a computing system, the method comprising:

sending, by a carousel component across a wireless link, a message to an interaction platform, the message requesting a list of related entities associated with a user running an application, wherein the application and the carousel component are executed by an interpreter running on the computing system;

receiving, by the carousel component across a wireless link, a response from the interaction platform, the response comprising a list of related entities;

invoking, by the carousel component via the interpreter, a call to the application, the call comprising the list of related entities;

receiving, by the carousel component via the interpreter, a response to the call, the response comprising status information regarding the list of related entities;

causing, by the carousel component, a scrollable carousel comprising the list of related entities to be displayed on a screen of the computing system over a displayed of the application, wherein the list of related entities comprises an indication of a status within the application for each related entity; and

in response to a selection of a related entity of the list of related entities, causing, by the carousel component, a first message to be sent to the interaction platform across a wireless link, wherein the first message indicates the interaction platform is to send a second message to the related entity, the second message comprising a hotlink for the related entity to perform an action associated with the application.

17. The method of claim 16 , wherein the list of related entities is ordered based on a number of interactions of related entities of the list of related entities with the user within the interaction platform.

18. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including instructions that, when processed by at least one processor, configure the at least one processor of a computing system to perform operations comprising:

sending, by a carousel component across a wireless link, a message to an interaction platform, the message requesting a list of related entities associated with a user running an application, wherein the application and the carousel component are executed by an interpreter running on the computing system;

receiving, by the carousel component across a wireless link, a response from the interaction platform, the response comprising a list of related entities;

invoking, by the carousel component via the interpreter, a call to the application, the call comprising the list of related entities;

receiving, by the carousel component via the interpreter, a response to the call, the response comprising status information regarding the list of related entities;

causing, by the carousel component, a scrollable carousel comprising the list of related entities to be displayed on a screen of the computing system over a displayed of the application, wherein the list of related entities comprises an indication of a status within the application for each related entity; and

in response to a selection of a related entity of the list of related entities, causing, by the carousel component, a first message to be sent to the interaction platform across a wireless link, wherein the first message indicates the interaction platform is to send a second message to the related entity, the second message comprising a hotlink for the related entity to perform an action associated with the application.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 18 , wherein the list of related entities is ordered based on a number of interactions of related entities of the list of related entities with the user within the interaction platform.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 18 , wherein the second message comprises an invitation comprising a hotlink for the related entity to run the application.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 29, 2025
From: LO, BENJAMIN; MOURKOGIANNIS, CELIA NICOLE; SHEKONI, IBRAHEM; VALLECILLO, YAMILL
To: SNAP INC.
Reel/Frame 070968/0896 →
Continuity (3)
Continuation 17018670 · Sep 11, 2020
Provisional Application 63022204 · May 8, 2020
Related Publication 20240195766A1 · Jun 13, 2024
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