Patents by Inventor Diego Muñoz Escalante

Diego Muñoz Escalante 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).

  • Publication number: 20240098051
    Abstract: Various embodiments include systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for sharing and managing media galleries. Consistent with these embodiments, a method includes receiving a request from a first device to share a media gallery that includes a user avatar; generating metadata associated with the media gallery; generating a message associated with the media gallery, the message at least including the media gallery identifier and the identifier of the user avatar; and transmitting the message to a second device of the recipient user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: David James Kennedy, Diego Muñoz Escalante, Arianne Spool, Yinghua David Xia
  • Publication number: 20240089225
    Abstract: Among other things, embodiments of the present disclosure improve the functionality of electronic messaging software and systems by generating customized images with avatars of different users within electronic messages. For example, users of different mobile computing devices can exchange electronic communications with images generated to include avatars representing themselves as well as their friends, colleagues, and other acquaintances.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Jacob Edward Blackstock, Diego Muñoz Escalante, Matthew Colin Grantham
  • Patent number: 11870745
    Abstract: Various embodiments include systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for sharing and managing media galleries. Consistent with these embodiments, a method includes receiving a request from a first device to share a media gallery that includes a user avatar; generating metadata associated with the media gallery; generating a message associated with the media gallery, the message at least including the media gallery identifier and the identifier of the user avatar; and transmitting the message to a second device of the recipient user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SNAP INC.
    Inventors: David James Kennedy, Diego Muñoz Escalante, Arianne Spool, Yinghua David Xia
  • Patent number: 11870743
    Abstract: Among other things, embodiments of the present disclosure improve the functionality of electronic messaging software and systems by generating customized images with avatars of different users within electronic messages. For example, users of different mobile computing devices can exchange electronic communications with images generated to include avatars representing themselves as well as their friends, colleagues, and other acquaintances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SNAP INC.
    Inventors: Jacob Edward Blackstock, Diego Muñoz Escalante, Matthew Colin Grantham
  • Publication number: 20230421517
    Abstract: Various embodiments include systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for sharing and managing media galleries. Consistent with these embodiments, a method includes receiving a request from a first device to share a media gallery that includes a user avatar; generating metadata associated with the media gallery; generating a message associated with the media gallery, the message at least including the media gallery identifier and the identifier of the user avatar; and transmitting the message to a second device of the recipient user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: David James Kennedy, Diego Muñoz Escalante, Arianne Spool, Yinghua David Xia
  • Patent number: 11593980
    Abstract: Among other things, embodiments of the present disclosure improve the functionality of electronic messaging software and systems by providing a customized display of avatars corresponding to users exchanging electronic communications, such as short message service (SMS) or multimedia service (MMS) texts and emails. The appearance of the displayed avatars may be dynamically altered based on the actions taken by the users, as well as based on the content of the messages between the users or information from other sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Jacob Edward Blackstock, Diego Muñoz Escalante, Matthew Colin Grantham, William Wu
  • Publication number: 20220012929
    Abstract: Among other things, embodiments of the present disclosure improve the functionality of electronic messaging software and systems by providing a customized display of avatars corresponding to users exchanging electronic communications, such as short message service (SMS) or multimedia service (MMS) texts and emails. The appearance of the displayed avatars may be dynamically altered based on the actions taken by the users, as well as based on the content of the messages between the users or information from other sources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Jacob Edward Blackstock, Diego Muñoz Escalante, Matthew Colin Grantham, William Wu
  • Patent number: 11069103
    Abstract: Among other things, embodiments of the present disclosure improve the functionality of electronic messaging software and systems by providing a customized display of avatars corresponding to users exchanging electronic communications, such as short message service (SMS) or multimedia service (MMS) texts and emails. The appearance of the displayed avatars may be dynamically altered based on the actions taken by the users, as well as based on the content of the messages between the users or information from other sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Jacob Edward Blackstock, Diego Muñoz Escalante, Matthew Colin Grantham, William Wu
  • Patent number: 10454857
    Abstract: Among other things, embodiments of the present disclosure improve the functionality of electronic messaging software and systems by generating customized images with avatars of different users within electronic messages. For example, users of different mobile computing devices can exchange electronic communications with images generated to include avatars representing themselves as well as their friends, colleagues, and other acquaintances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Jacob Edward Blackstock, Diego Muñoz Escalante, Matthew Colin Grantham