Patents by Inventor Cindy Yuqi Li

Cindy Yuqi Li has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Virtual currency in a native application environment
    Patent number: 11810169
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed provide a virtual currency system within a messaging application by performing operations comprising: launching, within a messaging application, a third-party application; receiving, by the messaging application from the third-party application, a request to perform an ecommerce transaction in relation to an item available for consumption on the third-party application; determining, by the messaging application, an expected attribute for the item based on accessing a database that stores expected attribute information for multiple items; verifying, by the messaging application, that an attribute of the item specified by the request corresponds to the expected attribute for the item; and processing, by the messaging application, the ecommerce transaction in response to successfully verifying that the attribute of the item satisfies a verification criterion based on the expected attribute for the item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: SNAP INC.
    Inventors: John Jensen, Alan Rawcliffe, Cindy Yuqi Li, Kiran Abraham, William Wu
  • VIRTUAL CURRENCY IN A NATIVE APPLICATION ENVIRONMENT
    Publication number: 20230037271
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed provide a virtual currency system within a messaging application by performing operations comprising: launching, within a messaging application, a third-party application; receiving, by the messaging application from the third-party application, a request to perform an ecommerce transaction in relation to an item available for consumption on the third-party application; determining, by the messaging application, an expected attribute for the item based on accessing a database that stores expected attribute information for multiple items; verifying, by the messaging application, that an attribute of the item specified by the request corresponds to the expected attribute for the item; and processing, by the messaging application, the ecommerce transaction in response to successfully verifying that the attribute of the item satisfies a verification criterion based on the expected attribute for the item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: John Jensen, Alan Rawcliffe, Cindy Yuqi Li, Kiran Abraham, William¿ Wu
  • Virtual currency in a native application environment
    Patent number: 11501348
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed provide a virtual currency system within a messaging application by performing operations comprising: launching, within a messaging application, a third-party application; receiving, by the messaging application from the third-party application, a request to perform an ecommerce transaction in relation to an item available for consumption on the third-party application; determining, by the messaging application, an expected attribute for the item based on accessing a database that stores expected attribute information for multiple items; verifying, by the messaging application, that an attribute of the item specified by the request corresponds to the expected attribute for the item; and processing, by the messaging application, the ecommerce transaction in response to successfully verifying that the attribute of the item satisfies a verification criterion based on the expected attribute for the item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: John Jensen, Alan Rawcliffe, Cindy Yuqi Li, Kiran Abraham, William Wu