Patents Assigned to A Thinking Ape Technologies
  • Patent number: 8918725
    Abstract: A user interface on a mobile device includes an integrated communication region positioned within a viewable area of an application on the mobile device. The integrated communication region is configured to display a preview of content of a first message of a plurality of messages sent by a plurality of users. The first message is a most recent message of the plurality of messages. Visibility of the preview is persistent across a plurality of screens of the application. Across the plurality of screens of the application, (i) a position of the preview within the integrated communication region and (ii) the visibility of the preview remain unchanged until displaced by a second message. The second message is more recent than the first message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: A Thinking Ape Technologies
    Inventors: Kenshi Arasaki, Wing-Hei Wilkins Chung, Eric Diep