ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,219,030, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Context surfacing in collections" was invented by Newar Husam Al Majid (New York) and Jeremy Baker Voss (Los Angeles).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A messaging system, which hosts a backend service for an associated messaging client, includes a context surfacing system that provides context surfacing functionality in collections. The collection is configured to cause displaying items in the set of media content items one after another, each for a predetermined period of time. The context surfacing system is configured to determine a proposed action for a viewer ...