US Patent Issued to SNAP on April 22 for "Apparatus and method for alternate channel communication initiated through a common message thread" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,152, issued on April 22, was assigned to SNAP INC. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Apparatus and method for alternate channel communication initiated through a common message thread" was invented by Evan Spiegel (Los Angeles), Robert Cornelius Murphy (Venice, Calif.) and Chamal Samaranayake (Venice, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A server has a processor and a memory storing a multiple channel message thread module with instructions executed by the processor to identify when participants at client devices are actively viewing a common message thread at the same time to establish a participant viewing state. An alternate channel commun...