US 12,244,552 B2
Access and routing of interactive messages
Kaveh Anvaripour, Culver City, CA (US); Grygoriy Kozhemiak, Odesa (UA); and Celia Nicole Mourkogiannis, Los Angeles, CA (US)
Assigned to Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US)
Filed by Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 28, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/374,454.
Application 18/374,454 is a continuation of application No. 17/648,527, filed on Jan. 20, 2022, granted, now 11,876,763.
Application 17/648,527 is a continuation of application No. 16/804,774, filed on Feb. 28, 2020, granted, now 11,265,274.
Prior Publication US 2024/0031318 A1, Jan. 25, 2024
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04L 51/52 (2022.01); H04L 51/10 (2022.01); H04L 51/18 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 51/10 (2013.01) [H04L 51/18 (2013.01); H04L 51/52 (2022.05)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
displaying, by a first computing device associated with a first user, indicia for a plurality of interactive messages available for engagement, the indicia displayed in a format that allows a user to scroll through the plurality of interactive messages available for engagement to select an interactive message;
determining that a message received from second computing device associated with a second user is an interactive message;
determining whether an indicum for the interactive message is already displayed in the indicia for the plurality of interactive messages;
based on determining that an indicum for the interactive message is not already displayed in the indicia for the plurality of interactive messages, adding a new indicium corresponding to the interactive message to the indicia of the plurality of interactive messages available for engagement; and
based on determining that an indicium for the interactive message is already displayed in the indicia for the plurality of interactive messages, causing display of an indicator on the indicium corresponding to the interactive message received from the second computing device, the indicator corresponding to a number of active sessions for the interactive message.