US Patent Issued to Snap on Nov. 11 for "Social media post subscribe requests for buffer user accounts" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,090, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Social media post subscribe requests for buffer user accounts" was invented by Nicholas R. Allen (Santa Monica, Calif.) and Joseph Burfitt (Santa Monica, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach for publishing posts on a social network through one or more user accounts with different levels of attribution is disclosed. A secure user account publishes a post through a programmatically linked buffer user account. The secure user account and the buffer user account are programmatically linked. Posts published via the buffer user account can be modified t...