Patents by Inventor Robert Cornelius Murphy

Robert Cornelius Murphy 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: 20210074069
    Abstract: Systems and methods for receiving audio data; identifying one or more graphical interface elements that correspond to the audio data; generating a display of the identified one or more graphical interface elements, wherein a first portion of the one or more graphical interface elements is persistently displayed, and wherein a second portion of the one or more graphical interface elements is temporarily displayed for a predetermined period of time together with the first portion of the one or more graphical interface elements; and at expiry of the predetermined period of time, ceasing display of the second portion while maintaining display of the first portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventors: Ebony James Charlton, Jokubas Dargis, Michael John Evans, Samuel Edward Hare, Andrew James McPhee, Robert Cornelius Murphy, Eitan Pilipski
  • Publication number: 20200410756
    Abstract: A redundant tracking system comprising multiple redundant tracking sub-systems, enabling seamless transitions between such tracking sub-systems, provides a solution to this problem by merging multiple tracking approaches into a single tracking system. This system is able to combine tracking objects with six degrees of freedom (6DoF) and 3DoF through combining and transitioning between multiple tracking systems based on the availability of tracking indicia tracked by the tracking systems. Thus, as the indicia tracked by any one tracking system becomes unavailable, the redundant tracking system seamlessly switches between tracking in 6DoF and 3DoF thereby providing the user with an uninterrupted experience.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Andrew James McPhee, Samuel Edward Hare, Peicheng Yu, Robert Cornelius Murphy, Dhritiman Sagar
  • Patent number: 10878635
    Abstract: Systems and methods for receiving audio data; identifying one or more graphical interface elements that correspond to the audio data; generating a display of the identified one or more graphical interface elements, wherein a first portion of the one or more graphical interface elements is persistently displayed, and wherein a second portion of the one or more graphical interface elements is temporarily displayed for a predetermined period of time together with the first portion of the one or more graphical interface elements; and at expiry of the predetermined period of time, ceasing display of the second portion while maintaining display of the first portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Ebony James Charlton, Jokubas Dargis, Michael John Evans, Samuel Edward Hare, Andrew James McPhee, Robert Cornelius Murphy, Eitan Pilipski
  • Patent number: 10803664
    Abstract: A redundant tracking system comprising multiple redundant tracking sub-systems, enabling seamless transitions between such tracking sub-systems, provides a solution to this problem by merging multiple tracking approaches into a single tracking system. This system is able to combine tracking objects with six degrees of freedom (6DoF) and 3DoF through combining and transitioning between multiple tracking systems based on the availability of tracking indicia tracked by the tracking systems. Thus, as the indicia tracked by any one tracking system becomes unavailable, the redundant tracking system seamlessly switches between tracking in 6DoF and 3DoF thereby providing the user with an uninterrupted experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew James McPhee, Samuel Edward Hare, Peicheng Yu, Robert Cornelius Murphy, Dhritiman Sagar
  • Publication number: 20200288270
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for determining that geolocation data from a computing device corresponds to a geo-fence associated with a plurality of galleries and providing user-selectable gallery information comprising indicia for each of the plurality of galleries corresponding to the geo-fence to the computing device. The systems and methods further provide for receiving a first message comprising a photograph as the background for the message in response to a second message in a first gallery of the plurality of galleries, and adding the first message to the first gallery associated with a selection of the indicia for the first gallery in the plurality of galleries of the of user-selectable gallery information. The first message is accessible by other computing devices accessing the gallery information to view the first message comprising the photograph as the background of the first message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Nicholas Richard Allen, Robert Cornelius Murphy, Evan Spiegel
  • Publication number: 20200250888
    Abstract: A redundant tracking system comprising multiple redundant tracking sub-systems, enabling seamless transitions between such tracking sub-systems, provides a solution to this problem by merging multiple tracking approaches into a single tracking system. This system is able to combine tracking objects with six degrees of freedom (6DoF) and 3DoF through combining and transitioning between multiple tracking systems based on the availability of tracking indicia tracked by the tracking systems. Thus, as the indicia tracked by any one tracking system becomes unavailable, the redundant tracking system seamlessly switches between tracking in 6DoF and 3DoF thereby providing the user with an uninterrupted experience.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: Andrew James McPhee, Samuel Edward Hare, Peicheng Yu, Robert Cornelius Murphy, Dhritiman Sagar
  • Publication number: 20200213534
    Abstract: Systems, devices, media and methods are presented for presentation of modified objects within a video stream. The systems and methods select an object of interest depicted within a user interface based on an associated image modifier, determine a modifier context based at least in part on one or more characteristics of the selected object, identify a set of image modifiers based on the modifier context, rank a first portion of the identified set of image modifiers based on a primary ordering characteristic, rank a second portion of the identified set of image modifiers based on a secondary ordering characteristic and cause presentation of the modifier icons for the ranked set of image modifiers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Ebony James Charlton, Michael John Evans, Samuel Edward Hare, Andrew James McPhee, Robert Cornelius Murphy, Eitan Pilipski
  • Patent number: 10692285
    Abstract: A redundant tracking system comprising multiple redundant tracking sub-systems, enabling seamless transitions between such tracking sub-systems, provides a solution to this problem by merging multiple tracking approaches into a single tracking system. This system is able to combine tracking objects with six degrees of freedom (6DoF) and 3DoF through combining and transitioning between multiple tracking systems based on the availability of tracking indicia tracked by the tracking systems. Thus, as the indicia tracked by any one tracking system becomes unavailable, the redundant tracking system seamlessly switches between tracking in 6DoF and 3DoF thereby providing the user with an uninterrupted experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew James McPhee, Samuel Edward Hare, Peicheng Yu, Robert Cornelius Murphy, Dhritiman Sagar
  • Patent number: 10659914
    Abstract: A computer implemented method may include receiving geo-location data from a device of a user; comparing the geo-location data with a geo-location fence associated with an event; determining that the geo-location data corresponds to the geo-location fence associated with the event; responsive to the determining that the geo-location data corresponds to the geo-location fence associated with the event, supplying user-selectable event gallery information, associated with an event gallery of the event, to the device for addition to a destination list on the device; detecting selection of the user-selectable event gallery information in the destination list by the user of the device; and/or responsive to the detecting of the selection of the user-selectable event gallery information by the user of the device, adding the user as a follower of the event, with access to the event gallery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas Richard Allen, Robert Cornelius Murphy, Evan Spiegel
  • Patent number: 10623666
    Abstract: Systems, devices, media, and methods are presented for presentation of modified objects within a video stream. The systems and methods receive a selection at a user interface of a computing device and determine a modifier context based at least in part on the selection and a position within the user interface. The systems and methods identify at least one set of modifiers based on the modifier context. The systems and methods determine an order for the set of modifiers based on the modifier context and cause presentation of modifier icons for the set of modifiers within the user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Ebony James Charlton, Michael John Evans, Samuel Edward Hare, Andrew James McPhee, Robert Cornelius Murphy, Eitan Pilipski
  • Patent number: 10524087
    Abstract: In response to generation of a message in a communication application on a client device, a graphical user interface is generated on the client device. The graphical user interface includes a destination list that includes user-selectable entries for individual recipients and for a gallery of ephemeral message. The user can send the message to individual recipients and/or add the message to the gallery by selecting the corresponding entries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas Richard Allen, Robert Cornelius Murphy, Evan Spiegel
  • Patent number: 10504287
    Abstract: A redundant tracking system comprising multiple redundant tracking sub-systems, enabling seamless transitions between such tracking sub-systems, provides a solution to this problem by merging multiple tracking approaches into a single tracking system. This system is able to combine tracking objects with six degrees of freedom (6DoF) and 3DoF through combining and transitioning between multiple tracking systems based on the availability of tracking indicia tracked by the tracking systems. Thus, as the indicia tracked by any one tracking system becomes unavailable, the redundant tracking system seamlessly switches between tracking in 6DoF and 3DoF thereby providing the user with an uninterrupted experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew James McPhee, Samuel Edward Hare, Peicheng Yu, Robert Cornelius Murphy, Dhritiman Sagar
  • Publication number: 20190319899
    Abstract: A content suggestion system to generate and cause display of a set of chat suggestions based on messages received at a client device. The content suggestions system is configured to display messages that include message content at a client device, and identify content selected by a user of the client device to be included in a response to the messages received at the client device. The content suggestion system tracks and stores a number of times in which a particular pair of content appear in succession in a chat context, and calculates a ranking of the content among a set of available content. When subsequent messages that include the content of the content pair are displayed at the client device, the content suggestion system retrieves and presents a set of content as suggestions, based on the corresponding ranks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: Luis Carlos Dos Santos Marujo, Maria Pavlovskaia, William Brendel, Robert Cornelius Murphy
  • Patent number: 10445936
    Abstract: Systems, devices, media, and methods are presented for generating responsive augmented reality elements in a graphical user interface. The systems and methods receive a video stream having one or more frames containing image data and audio data. The systems and methods identify a set of coordinates within a portion of the one or more frames and identify one or more audio characteristics within the audio data of the video stream. In response to the one or more audio characteristics, the systems and methods generate one or more graphical interface elements and detect a change in the audio data within the video stream. The systems and methods modify the one or more graphical interface elements in a second portion of the video stream in response to the change in the audio data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Ebony James Charlton, Jokubas Dargis, Michael John Evans, Samuel Edward Hare, Andrew James McPhee, Robert Cornelius Murphy, Eitan Pilipski
  • Patent number: 10200813
    Abstract: A computer implemented method may include receiving geo-location data from a device of a user; comparing the geo-location data with a geo-location fence associated with an event; determining that the geo-location data corresponds to the geo-location fence associated with the event; responsive to the determining that the geo-location data corresponds to the geo-location fence associated with the event, supplying user-selectable event gallery information, associated with an event gallery of the event, to the device for addition to a destination list on the device; detecting selection of the user-selectable event gallery information in the destination list by the user of the device; and/or responsive to the detecting of the selection of the user-selectable event gallery information by the user of the device, adding the user as a follower of the event, with access to the event gallery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas Richard Allen, Robert Cornelius Murphy, Evan Spiegel
  • Publication number: 20180131878
    Abstract: Systems, devices, media, and methods are presented for presentation of modified objects within a video stream. The systems and methods receive a selection at a user interface of a computing device and determine a modifier context based at least in part on the selection and a position within the user interface. The systems and methods identify at least one set of modifiers based on the modifier context. The systems and methods determine an order for the set of modifiers based on the modifier context and cause presentation of modifier icons for the set of modifiers within the user interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Inventors: Ebony James Charlton, Michael John Evans, Samuel Edward Hare, Andrew James McPhee, Robert Cornelius Murphy, Eitan Pilipski
  • Publication number: 20180114364
    Abstract: A redundant tracking system comprising multiple redundant tracking sub-systems, enabling seamless transitions between such tracking sub-systems, provides a solution to this problem by merging multiple tracking approaches into a single tracking system. This system is able to combine tracking objects with six degrees of freedom (6DoF) and 3DoF through combining and transitioning between multiple tracking systems based on the availability of tracking indicia tracked by the tracking systems. Thus, as the indicia tracked by any one tracking system becomes unavailable, the redundant tracking system seamlessly switches between tracking in 6DoF and 3DoF thereby providing the user with an uninterrupted experience.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2017
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Inventors: Andrew James McPhee, Samuel Edward Hare, Peicheng Yu, Robert Cornelius Murphy, Dhritiman Sagar
  • Publication number: 20170374003
    Abstract: A server maintains a gallery of ephemeral messages. Each ephemeral message is posted to the gallery by a user for viewing by recipients via recipient devices. In response to a gallery view request from any of the recipient devices, the ephemeral messages in the gallery are displayed on the requesting device in automated sequence, each message being displayed for a respective display duration before display of the next message in the gallery. Each ephemeral message has an associated message availability parameter, at the expiry of which the ephemeral message is made unavailable for viewing as part of the gallery. At expiry of the message availability parameter of the last posted message, the gallery is made unavailable for viewing upon request by any recipient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Nicholas Richard Allen, Donald Giovannini, Chia Yi Lin, Robert Cornelius Murphy, Evan Spiegel
  • Patent number: 9532171
    Abstract: A computer implemented method may include receiving geo-location data from a device of a user; comparing the geo-location data with a geo-location fence associated with an event; determining that the geo-location data corresponds to the geo-location fence associated with the event; responsive to the determining that the geo-location data corresponds to the geo-location fence associated with the event, supplying user-selectable event gallery information, associated with an event gallery of the event, to the device for addition to a destination list on the device; detecting selection of the user-selectable event gallery information in the destination list by the user of the device; and/or responsive to the detecting of the selection of the user-selectable event gallery information by the user of the device, adding the user as a follower of the event, with access to the event gallery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas Richard Allen, Robert Cornelius Murphy, Evan Spiegel
  • Publication number: 20150365795
    Abstract: A computer implemented method may include receiving geo-location data from a device of a user; comparing the geo-location data with a geo-location fence associated with an event; determining that the geo-location data corresponds to the geo-location fence associated with the event; responsive to the determining that the geo-location data corresponds to the geo-location fence associated with the event, supplying user-selectable event gallery information, associated with an event gallery of the event, to the device for addition to a destination list on the device; detecting selection of the user-selectable event gallery information in the destination list by the user of the device; and/or responsive to the detecting of the selection of the user-selectable event gallery information by the user of the device, adding the user as a follower of the event, with access to the event gallery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Inventors: Nicholas Richard Allen, Robert Cornelius Murphy, Evan Spiegel