Patents by Inventor Nicholas Richards

Nicholas Richards 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: 20250150416
    Abstract: Systems and methods for causing display of a messaging achievement pictograph based on messaging activity are provided. In some example embodiments, a message activity communication is received by a messaging activity service from a client device, the messaging active communication causing and adjustment to a message activity score and the message activity score transgressing a first threshold activity score. Responsive to the message activity transgressing the first threshold activity score, an achievement pictograph is displayed on the client device. In some example embodiments, the pictograph may be ephemeral and removal of the pictograph may be triggered by a designated time or by the message activity score transgressing a second threshold activity score. In some example embodiments, a notification is generated that notifies a user of the display or removal from display of the achievement pictograph.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2025
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Inventors: Chamal Samaranayake, Nathan Kenneth Boyd, Jonathan Dale Brody, Nicholas Richard Allen, Evan Spiegel
  • Publication number: 20250133088
    Abstract: A system includes a communication module that receives a request to post content to an event gallery associated with an event. The request in turn includes geo-location data for a device sending the content, and identification data identifying the device or a user of the device. The system further has an event gallery module to perform a first authorization operation that includes determining that the geo-location data corresponds to a geo-location fence associated with an event. The event gallery module also performs a second authorization operation that includes using the identification data to verify an attribute of the user. Finally, based on the first and second authorization operations, the event gallery module may selectively authorize the device to post the content to the event gallery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2024
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Inventors: Nicholas Richard Allen, Sheldon Chang
  • Patent number: 12248506
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for receiving, at a server computer, a plurality of content messages from a plurality of content sources, each content message comprising media content and associated with a predetermined media collection, for each of the plurality of content messages received, analyzing each of the plurality of content messages to determine a quality score for each of the plurality of content messages, and storing each of the plurality of content messages in a database along with the quality score for each of the plurality of content messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas Richard Allen, Sheldon Chang, Maria Pavlovskaia, Amer Shahnawaz, Jianchao Yang
  • Publication number: 20250065285
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a blender delivery system designed for integration with water bottles. This system facilitates the efficient mixing of supplements, such as protein powders and other nutritional additives, directly into a water bottle without the need for separate blending containers. The delivery device incorporates threading at one end to securely attach to a blender base and an opening at the other end to form a watertight connection with a water bottle. The device's internal volume is designed to receive and mix supplement contents with liquid from the water bottle when connected to a blender base. This configuration allows for a seamless transfer of mixed contents back into the water bottle for easy consumption. This invention addresses the need for a convenient, portable, and mess-free solution to mixing dietary supplements in everyday settings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventor: Nicholas Richard Domingo
  • Patent number: 12231437
    Abstract: A system includes a communication module that receives a request to post content to an event gallery associated with an event. The request in turn includes geo-location data for a device sending the content, and identification data identifying the device or a user of the device. The system further has an event gallery module to perform a first authorization operation that includes determining that the geo-location data corresponds to a geo-location fence associated with an event. The event gallery module also performs a second authorization operation that includes using the identification data to verify an attribute of the user. Finally, based on the first and second authorization operations, the event gallery module may selectively authorize the device to post the content to the event gallery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas Richard Allen, Sheldon Chang
  • Patent number: 12225095
    Abstract: Systems and methods for causing display of a messaging achievement pictograph based on messaging activity are provided. In some example embodiments, a message activity communication is received by a messaging activity service from a client device, the messaging active communication causing and adjustment to a message activity score and the message activity score transgressing a first threshold activity score. Responsive to the message activity transgressing the first threshold activity score, an achievement pictograph is displayed on the client device. In some example embodiments, the pictograph may be ephemeral and removal of the pictograph may be triggered by a designated time or by the message activity score transgressing a second threshold activity score. In some example embodiments, a notification is generated that notifies a user of the display or removal from display of the achievement pictograph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Chamal Samaranayake, Nathan Boyd, Jonathan Brody, Nicholas Richard Allen, Evan Spiegel
  • Publication number: 20250019668
    Abstract: This application relates to recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) packaging and/or producer cell lines which have been engineered to reduce expression and/or activity of one or more genes and/or proteins to increase rAAV titers. The methods of generating the engineered cell lines have also been described herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Inventors: Nicholas Richards, Justin Tedeschi, Caroline Adams, Charles Pugh, Matthew Scott Fuller
  • Patent number: 12169621
    Abstract: Systems, devices, media, and methods are presented for dynamic presentation and management of messages within a graphical user interface by presenting content icons, monitoring consumption status of the presented content represented by the content icons, transferring a content item from a first set of content to a second set of content, and causing presentation of the content item as part of the second set of content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas Richard Allen, Newar Husam Al Majid
  • Publication number: 20240396861
    Abstract: Methods, devices, systems, and computer readable media with instructions for group text communications between multiple devices, along with communication of associated data and automatic deletion of communications, are described. One embodiment involves generating a first ephemeral group chat, receiving a first ephemeral chat message, associated with one or more deletion triggers, and transmitting the first ephemeral message; and receiving, from at least the second client device, chat monitoring information comprising first deletion trigger information. In various embodiments, coordinated presentation and deletion of ephemeral chat messages are managed in a variety of ways.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2024
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Inventors: Nicholas Richard Allen, Jonathan Dale Brody, Chamal Samaranayake, William Wu
  • Publication number: 20240376440
    Abstract: This application relates to recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) packaging and/or producer cell lines which have been engineered to reduce expression and/or activity of one or more genes and/or proteins to increase rAAV titers. The methods of generating the engineered cell lines have also been described herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2024
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Inventors: Aubrey R. Tiernan, Nicholas Richards
  • Publication number: 20240340262
    Abstract: A messaging server system receives a message creation input from a first client device that is associated with a first user registered with the messaging server system. The messaging server system determines, based on an entity graph representing connections between a plurality of users registered with the messaging server system, that the first user is within a threshold degree of connection with a second that initiated a group story in relation to a specified event. The messaging server system determines, based on location data received from the first client device, that the first client device was located within a geo-fence surrounding a geographic location of the specified event during a predetermined event window, the geo-fence and event window having been designated by the second user, and causes the first client device to present a user interface element that enables the first user to submit content to the group story.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2024
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Inventors: Nicholas Richard Allen, Jacob Andreou, Evan Spiegel
  • Patent number: 12113760
    Abstract: Among other things, embodiments of the present disclosure improve the functionality of electronic messaging and imaging software and systems by generating and displaying media overlays with avatars of different users. For example, media overlays can be generated by the system and displayed in conjunction with media content (e.g., images and/or video) generated by an image-capturing device (e.g., a digital camera).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas Richard Allen, Dorian Franklin Baldwin, Jacob Edward Blackstock, David James Kennedy, Shahan Panth, Timothy Jordan Garcia
  • Patent number: 12102848
    Abstract: Provided is an electrically active breathing mask. The mask contains conductive layers separated by insulating layers, the conductive layers being alternatingly positively or negatively charged. Air passing through one insulating layer is directed across the surface of a next charged layer, before flowing through a next insulating layer, and so on. Particles including virus in water vapor or sputum are evaporated as they contact alternately charged layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: GridKicker, LLC
    Inventors: Kahrl Retti, Nicholas Richard Retti
  • Patent number: 12095720
    Abstract: Methods, devices, systems, and computer readable media with instructions for group text communications between multiple devices, along with communication of associated data and automatic deletion of communications, are described. One embodiment involves generating a first ephemeral group chat, receiving a first ephemeral chat message, associated with one or more deletion triggers, and transmitting the first ephemeral message and receiving, from at least the second client device, chat monitoring information comprising first deletion trigger information. In various embodiments, coordinated presentation and deletion of ephemeral chat messages are managed in a variety of ways.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas Richard Allen, Jonathan Dale Brody, Chamal Samaranayake, William Wu
  • Patent number: 12081502
    Abstract: Among other things, embodiments of the present disclosure improve the functionality of electronic messaging and imaging software and systems by generating and displaying media overlays with avatars of different users. For example, media overlays can be generated by the system and displayed in conjunction with media content (e.g., images and/or video) generated by an image-capturing device (e.g., a digital camera).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas Richard Allen, Dorian Franklin Baldwin, Jacob Edward Blackstock, David James Kennedy, Shahan Panth, Timothy Jordan Garcia
  • Patent number: 12047344
    Abstract: A messaging server system receives a message creation input from a first client device that is associated with a first user registered with the messaging server system. The messaging server system determines, based on an entity graph representing connections between a plurality of users registered with the messaging server system, that the first user is within a threshold degree of connection with a second that initiated a group story in relation to a specified event. The messaging server system determines, based on location data received from the first client device, that the first client device was located within a geo-fence surrounding a geographic location of the specified event during a predetermined event window, the geo-fence and event window having been designated by the second user, and causes the first client device to present a user interface element, that enables the first user to submit content to the group story.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: SNAP INC.
    Inventors: Nicholas Richard Allen, Jacob Andreou, Evan Spiegel
  • Patent number: 12018288
    Abstract: This application relates to recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) packaging and/or producer cell lines which have been engineered to reduce expression and/or activity of one or more genes and/or proteins to increase rAAV titers. The methods of generating the engineered cell lines have also been described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc.
    Inventors: Aubrey R. Tiernan, Nicholas Richards
  • Publication number: 20240195767
    Abstract: Among other things, embodiments of the present disclosure improve the functionality of electronic messaging and imaging software and systems by generating and displaying media overlays with avatars of different users. For example, media overlays can be generated by the system and displayed in conjunction with media content (e.g., images and/or video) generated by an image-capturing device (e.g., a digital camera).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2024
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Inventors: Nicholas Richard Allen, Dorian Franklin Baldwin, Jacob Edward Blackstock, David James Kennedy, Shahan Panth, Timothy Jordan Garcia
  • Publication number: 20240171925
    Abstract: In an audio system that includes at least one audio output element for outputting audio signals, one or more audio settings, from a plurality of audio settings supported in the audio system, may be determined based on a selected audio mode supported in the audio system and mapping data. The mapping data defines, for at least the selected audio mode, valid values for at least one audio setting. At least one user control element may be configured to enable a user input that includes a selection for the one or more audio settings, with the configuring including adjusting operation of the at least one user control element, and the adjusting including enabling for selection or setting, via the at least one user control element, values for the user input that match or correspond to only the valid values for the at least one audio setting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2024
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: Kevin Arthur Robertson, David Gallagher, Nicholas Richard Bourne
  • Patent number: D1062146
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Inventor: Nicholas Richard Domingo