Patents by Inventor Kenneth Boyd

Kenneth Boyd 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).

  • Patent number: 11962547
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for performing operations including: retrieving a plurality of content items; determining a first category of a first content item in the plurality of content items; selecting a first presentation arrangement from a plurality of presentation arrangements based on the first category determined for the first content item; and presenting the first content item to a user according to the selected first presentation arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SNAP INC.
    Inventors: Newar Husam Al Majid, Nathan Kenneth Boyd, Laurent Desserrey, Matthew Thompson, Jeremy Voss
  • Publication number: 20240119652
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein include an expressive icon system to present an animated graphical icon, wherein the animated graphical icon is generated by capture facial tracking data at a client device. In some embodiments, the system may track and capture facial tracking data of a user via a camera associated with a client device (e.g., a front facing camera, or a paired camera), and process the facial tracking data to animate a graphical icon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Newar Husam Al Majid, Nathan Kenneth Boyd, Sheldon Chang, Chamal Samaranayake, Jeremy Voss
  • Publication number: 20240112261
    Abstract: A computer system for integrating trading account security with associate investment policy (AIP) governance is provided. The system includes a processor and a receiver. A received trade request may include an associate social security number, an associate name, a security name, a last security purchase data, and a broker dealer name. The employee may be a private side employee. The processor may use a series of containers in electronic communication with a database or database engine to determine that the trade request is industry compliant and employer regulations compliant. When the trade request is determined to be non-compliant, then the processor may electronically message or e-mail the employee 1) a trade denial and 2) insider trading mitigation messages. Following a determination that the trade request is fully compliant; the processor may transmit the trade request to an employer trading platform and prompt the associate to execute the trade request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Aravind Shankaragouda Singtalur, Manmohan V. Datla-Viswasai, Petar Puskarich, Srinath Chakravarty, Steven Greene, Dinesh Kumar Agrawal, Kenneth Boyd, Kerry Vaughan, Stephen Belton
  • Publication number: 20240112259
    Abstract: A system for integrating trading account security with associate investment policy (AIP) governance is provided. The system includes a processor, a receiver, and a series of containers. The receiver may receive an associate trade request including an associate social security number (SSN), an associate name, a name of a security to which the trade request is directed, a last security purchase data, the last security purchase data associated with the security, and a broker dealer name. The employee may be a private side employee. The system may include a series of containers for storing microservices. The containers communicate with a database engine. The trade request may be industry compliant and employer regulations compliant. The processor may transmit a fully compliant trade request to an employer platform. Following receipt of a trade request confirmation from the employer platform, the associate trading platform may execute the trade request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Aravind Shankaragouda Singtalur, Manmohan V. Datla-Viswasai, Petar Puskarich, Srinath Chakravarty, Steven Greene, Dinesh Kumar Agrawal, Kenneth Boyd, Kerry Vaughan, Stephen Belton
  • Publication number: 20240112260
    Abstract: A system for integrating trading account security with associate investment policy (AIP) governance is provided, including a processor and a receiver for receiving an associate trade request. The trade request may include an associate social security number and name, a name of a security, a last security purchase data, the last data for the security, and a broker dealer name. The processor may determine that the employee is a private side employee and then use a series of containers in electronic communication with a database or engine to determine industry and employer regulations compliance, after which the processor may transmit the request to an employer trading platform and may include an instruction to allow executing the trade request within a pre-determined time period and prompting the associate with a selectable option to execute the trade request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Aravind Shankaragouda Singtalur, Manmohan V. Datla-Viswasai, Petar Puskarich, Srinath Chakravarty, Steven Greene, Dinesh Kumar Agrawal, Kenneth Boyd, Kerry Vaughan, Stephen Belton
  • Patent number: 11949527
    Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for performing operations for providing a shared augmented reality experience in a video chat. A video chat can be established between a plurality of client devices. During the video chat, videos of users associated with the client devices can be displayed. During the video chat, a request from a first client device to activate a first AR experience can be received, and in response, and body parts of users depicted in the videos are modified to include one or more AR elements associated with the first AR experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SNAP INC.
    Inventors: Nathan Richard Banks, Nathan Kenneth Boyd, Amanda Durham, Alex Edelsburg, Maxim Maximov Lazarov, Ryan Thomas
  • Publication number: 20240098058
    Abstract: A method and a system include receiving a request from a client device to view a media content item, determining at least one comment associated with a respective user profile from a set of connected profiles, generating a summary comments selectable item based at least in part on the respective user profile, causing a display of playback of the media content item and the summary comments selectable item in response to the request to view the media content item, and during the playback of the media content item at the particular time, causing a display of at least one comment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Nathan Kenneth Boyd, Jeremy Baker Voss
  • Publication number: 20240094983
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system and a method for performing operations comprising: receiving, by a messaging application implemented on a client device, input that selects a sound option to add sound to one or more images; in response to receiving the input, presenting a sound editing user interface element that visually indicates a played portion of the sound and separately visually indicates an un-played portion of the sound; receiving an interaction with the sound editing user interface element to modify a start point of the sound; embedding a graphical element representing the sound in the one or more images; playing, by the messaging application, the sound associated with the graphical element starting from the start point together with displaying the one or more images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Nathan Kenneth Boyd, Jonathan Dale Brody, Andrew Grosvenor Cooper, Brandon Francis, Christie Marie Heikkinen, Ranidu Lankage
  • Patent number: 11928167
    Abstract: In one or more implementations, content generated using a client application may be associated with a classification. A number of classifications may be recommended to users of a client application based on alphanumeric characters entered by the users. Additionally, a number of classifications may be recommended to the users of the client application based one or more additional criteria, such as recently used classifications or classifications having at least a threshold frequency of use by additional users of the client application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan Kenneth Boyd, Andrew Grosvenor Cooper, Suraj Vindana Samaranayake, Vu Tran, Yamill Vallecillo, Yiwen Zhan
  • Publication number: 20240078729
    Abstract: A system and method for presentation of computer vision (e.g., augmented reality, virtual reality) using user data and a user code is disclosed. A client device can detect an image feature (e.g., scannable code) in one or more images. The image feature is determined to be linked to a user account. User data from the user account can then be used to generate one or more augmented reality display elements that can be anchored to the image feature in the one or more images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Ebony James Charlton, Omer Cansizoglu, Kirk Ouimet, Nathan kenneth Boyd
  • Publication number: 20240062254
    Abstract: Embodiments for communicating and displaying collections of image and video clip content with an opt-out interstitial are described. In one example embodiment, a device receives interface information about a group of content collections from a server computer system. When a user inputs a selection of a first content collection, the device displays images and video clips in a sequence defined by the content collection. Each piece of content is displayed for less than a threshold display time. When the device finishes playing the first content collection, the device presents an opt-out interstitial. Additional content collections generated from content submitted by other client devices can be received from the server computer system, and are presented based on a response input, or a lack of response input, to the opt-out interstitial. Some embodiments include content collections generated by the server computer system, as well as advertising elements presented between content collections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Nathan Kenneth Boyd, Jeremy Voss, William Wu
  • Publication number: 20240040236
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for trimming video. The program and method provide for providing a capture user interface for capturing a video to generate a media content item; displaying a preview user interface for previewing and editing the captured video to generate the media content item, the preview user interface including an interface element for selecting to trim the captured video or to set a playback option for the media content item; receiving, via the interface element, user input selecting to trim the captured video; and displaying a preview bar within the preview user interface, the preview bar including a set of frames of the captured video and front and back handles respectively positioned in front and in back of the set of frames, each of the front and back handles being selectable to trim video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Isabelle Albi, Kaveh Anvaripour, Christine Barron, Nathan Kenneth Boyd, Dallin Dyer, Christie Marie Heikkinen, Ranidu Lankage, Sherif Mohamed
  • Patent number: 11880923
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein include an expressive icon system to present an animated graphical icon, wherein the animated graphical icon is generated by capture facial tracking data at a client device. In some embodiments, the system may track and capture facial tracking data of a user via a camera associated with a client device (e.g., a front facing camera, or a paired camera), and process the facial tracking data to animate a graphical icon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Newar Husam Al Majid, Nathan Kenneth Boyd, Sheldon Chang, Chamal Samaranayake, Jeremy Voss
  • Publication number: 20240015121
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve providing a platform user notification to users in a chat session. A user device receives from a server chat status message data for a chat session. The user device detects a specified platform being used by a user in the chat session based on the chat status message data. The user device provides a chat session user interface a platform presence icon associated with the user indicating that the user is using the specified platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Sergio Azua-Izeta, Nathan Kenneth Boyd, Anton Bredykhin, Yu Wang
  • Publication number: 20240012929
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system for hiding conversation elements. The system accesses a conversation interface of a messaging application on a web browser and presents the conversation interface in a window associated with the web browser. The conversation interface comprises a plurality of conversation elements. The system accesses a focus status of the window and, in response to determining that the focus status indicates that the window has lost focus, obscures a first subset of the plurality of conversation elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Nathan Kenneth Boyd, Laurent Desserrey, Alex Edelsburg, Daniel Moreno, David Paliwoda, Jeremy Baker Voss
  • Publication number: 20240012558
    Abstract: A user input content item is presented in a viewing interface of an interaction application executing on a user device. The user input content item is shared with a viewing user by a sending user via an interaction system. A press and hold operation by the viewing user related to the presentation of the user input content item is detected. Responsive to the detection of the press and hold operation, the interaction application is automatically transitioned to a reply state. Within the reply state, a reply mechanism is activated to enable the viewing user to generate a reply message to the sending user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Nathan Kenneth Boyd, Christie Marie Heikkinen, David Phillip Taitz, Jeremy Baker Voss
  • Publication number: 20240015126
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system for managing a conversation across multiple windows or tabs. The system accesses a conversation interface of a messaging application on a first web session and presents the conversation interface in the first web session. The system receives a request to access the conversation interface from a second web session. In response to receiving the request, the system transfers the conversation interface from the first web session to the second web session.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Nathan Kenneth Boyd, Alex Edelsburg, Daniel Moreno, David Paliwoda, Jeremy Baker Voss
  • Publication number: 20240012930
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system for hiding conversation elements. The system accesses a conversation interface of a messaging application on a web browser and presents the conversation interface in a window associated with the web browser. The conversation interface comprising a plurality of conversation elements. The system determines that one or more inputs received from one or more input devices correspond to a specified combination of inputs. The system, in response to determining that the one or more inputs correspond to a specified combination of inputs, obscures a first subset of the plurality of conversation elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Nathan Kenneth Boyd, Alex Edelsburg, Daniel Moreno, David Paliwoda, Jeremy Baker Voss
  • Patent number: 11868676
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system and a method for performing operations comprising: receiving, by a messaging application implemented on a client device, input that selects a sound option to add sound to one or more images; in response to receiving the input, presenting a sound editing user interface element that visually indicates a played portion of the sound and separately visually indicates an un-played portion of the sound; receiving an interaction with the sound editing user interface element to modify a start point of the sound; embedding a graphical element representing the sound in the one or more images; playing, by the messaging application, the sound associated with the graphical element starting from the start point together with displaying the one or more images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan Kenneth Boyd, Jonathan Dale Brody, Andrew Grosvenor Cooper, Brandon Francis, Christie Marie Heikkinen, Ranidu Lankage
  • Publication number: 20240004517
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system for filtering conversations. The system generates for display, by a messaging application, a plurality of shortcut options, each of the plurality of shortcut options comprising a respective filtering criterion. In response to receiving input that selects a given shortcut option of the plurality of shortcut options, the system retrieves the filtering criterion associated with the given shortcut option. The system searches a plurality of conversations to identify a subset of conversations that match the filtering criterion. The system generates for display together with the plurality of shortcut options, a plurality of representations of the identified subset of conversations in which one or more messages have been exchanged between a user and one or more friends of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Nathan Kenneth Boyd, Daniel Moreno, David Phillip Taitz, Jeremy Baker Voss, Yu Wang