ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,858, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Automatically incremented read-watermark" was invented by Haim Shoham (Berkeley, Calif.), Gavin Shriver (Seattle), Jason Varbedian (Seattle) and Zhichao Yang (Kirkland, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system to automatically increment read-watermarks based on a set of predefined rules and criteria and configured to perform operations that include: accessing a message thread that comprises a plurality of messages; detecting a display of a message from among the plurality of messages at a client device, the message corresponding with an identification num...