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Granted Patent B2
US 12,476,928 · App. 18/393,195 · Granted Nov 18, 2025

Quotable stories and stickers for messaging applications

Inventor: Christie Marie Heikkinen (Sherman Oaks, CA)
Assignee: SNAP INC.
H04L51/10H04L51/02H04L51/52
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Patent No.
US 12,476,928
App. No.
18/393,195
Granted
Nov 18, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A system includes one or more hardware processors and at least one memory storing instructions that cause the one or more hardware processors to perform operations including receiving, via a client device, one or more response messages to a question sticker or to a story, and selecting, via the client device, a response message of the one or more response messages for publication. The operations also include selecting, via the client device, a privacy setting for the response message, and publishing, via the client device, the response message.

Claims (46)

1 . A system, comprising:

one or more hardware processors; and

at least one memory storing instructions that cause the one or more hardware processors to perform operations, comprising:

receiving, via a client device, one or more response messages to a question sticker or to a story;

presenting, via the client device, a first user interface for selecting from the one or more response messages;

receiving a selection, via the first user interface, of a response message of the one or more response messages for publication;

presenting, via the client device, a second user interface for privacy settings after the selection of the response message;

receiving a selection, via the second user interface, of a privacy setting for the response message; and

publishing, via the client device, the response message based on the selected privacy setting.

2 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the question sticker comprises a media overlay comprising text, a picture, a video, an animation, an avatar or a combination thereof, to be disposed on top of a media.

3 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the question sticker comprises a pre-defined content stored in a database.

4 . The system of claim 3 , wherein the pre-defined content is based on a date or a date range.

5 . The system of claim 4 , wherein the date or date range comprises a holiday, a special day, an event, or a combination thereof.

6 . The system of claim 3 , wherein the pre-defined content is randomly selected.

7 . The system of claim 1 , wherein selecting, via the client device, the privacy setting for the response message comprises selecting an anonymous setting for a sender of the response message.

8 . The system of claim 7 , wherein publishing, via the client device, the response message, comprises publishing the response message as an anonymous response message.

9 . The system of claim 1 , publishing, via the client device, the response message comprises publishing the response message via a social network.

10 . The system of claim 9 , wherein all members of the social network comprise a friends group of a user of the client device.

11 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the operations comprise automatically removing the response message from publication.

12 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the operations comprise selecting, via the client device, the question sticker, and positioning the question sticker onto a location on a media content.

13 . The system of claim 12 , wherein the media content comprises a picture, a video, an AR augmentation, a text, or a combination thereof.

14 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the story comprises a collection of media content provided in a timeline order.

15 . The system of claim 14 , wherein receiving, via the client device, one or more response messages to the story comprises receiving, via the client device, one or more response messages directed to a media content of the collection of media content.

16 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the operations comprise presenting, via the client device, an indicia to a sender of the response message that the response message is shareable to a social network before the response message is sent by the sender.

17 . A method, comprising:

receiving, via a client device, one or more response messages to a question sticker or to a story;

presenting, via the client device, a first user interface for selecting from the one or more response messages;

receiving a selection, via the first user interface, of a response message of the one or more response messages for publication;

presenting, via the client device, a second user interface for privacy settings after the selection of the response message;

receiving a selection, via the second user interface, of a privacy setting for the response message; and

publishing, via the client device, the response message based on the selected privacy setting.

18 . A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, the computer-readable storage medium including instructions that when executed by a computer, cause the computer to:

receive, via a client device, one or more response messages to a question sticker or to a story;

present, via the client device, a first user interface to select from the one or more response messages;

receive selection, via the first user interface, of a response message of the one or more response messages for publication;

present, via the client device, a second user interface for privacy settings after the selection of the response message;

receive selection, via the second user interface, of a privacy setting for the response message; and

publish, via the client device, the response message based on the selected privacy setting.

19 . The system of claim 1 , further comprising:

detecting, via the client device, a contextual event associated with one or more of a date or location;

automatically generating a contextual question sticker based on the detected contextual event; and

presenting the contextual question sticker as a selectable option prior to receiving the one or more response messages.

20 . The system of claim 1 , further comprising:

presenting, via the client device, a randomizer control with the question sticker;

receiving, via the client device, an activation of the randomizer control; and

in response to the activation, replacing text or media in the question sticker with randomly selected pre-defined content from a database.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 17, 2025
From: HEIKKINEN, CHRISTIE MARIE
To: SNAP INC.
Reel/Frame 070531/0371 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 63478093 · Dec 30, 2022
Related Publication 20240223520A1 · Jul 4, 2024
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