US 11,706,166 B2
Presenting reactions from friends
Newar Husam Al Majid, New York, NY (US); Nathan Kenneth Boyd, Los Angeles, CA (US); Laurent Desserrey, Los Angeles, CA (US); Matthew Thompson, Venice, CA (US); and Jeremy Voss, Los Angeles, CA (US)
Assigned to Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US)
Filed by Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US)
Filed on Mar. 17, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/697,659.
Application 17/697,659 is a continuation of application No. 16/586,577, filed on Sep. 27, 2019, granted, now 11,343,209.
Prior Publication US 2022/0210100 A1, Jun. 30, 2022
Int. Cl. H04L 51/043 (2022.01); H04L 51/10 (2022.01); H04L 51/046 (2022.01); H04L 51/226 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 51/043 (2013.01) [H04L 51/046 (2013.01); H04L 51/10 (2013.01); H04L 51/226 (2022.05)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
retrieving, by one or more processors, a plurality of content items stored in association with a messaging application;
identifying a list of friends of a user on the messaging application;
obtaining reaction data for each friend in the list of friends, the reaction data identifying a set of content items, in the plurality of content items, to which respective ones of the friends in the list of friends reacted;
determining, by the messaging application, that a first friend reacted to a first content item in the set of content items more recently than a second friend, the first friend being in the list of friends and associated with a first avatar and the second friend being in the list of friends and associated with a second avatar;
determining that a tile representing the first content item is configured to include a maximum number of avatars representing friends of the user who reacted to the first content item, the maximum number of avatars being greater than one;
in response to determining that the first friend reacted to the first content item more recently than the second friend, selecting the first avatar from the first and second avatars to be included among the maximum number of avatars representing friends of the user who reacted to the first content item; and
presenting the selected first avatar in association with the tile representing the first content item.