US Patent Issued to SNAP on July 8 for "Restricted group content collection" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,719, issued on July 8, was assigned to SNAP INC. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Restricted group content collection" was invented by Nicholas Richard Allen (Venice, Calif.), Jacob Andreou (Santa Monica, Calif.) and Evan Spiegel (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A messaging server system receives a message creation input from a first client device that is associated with a first user registered with the messaging server system. The messaging server system determines, based on an entity graph representing connections between a plurality of users registered with the messaging server system, that the first user is within a threshold d...