US 11,778,430 B2
Layers in messaging applications
Bartosz Ciechanowski, London (GB); Bhaskar P. Sarma, Santa Clara, CA (US); William R. Dahlberg, San Francisco, CA (US); Eugene Bistolas, Mountain View, CA (US); Olivier Gutknecht, San Francisco, CA (US); and Nathaniel Begeman, Cupertino, CA (US)
Assigned to APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 23, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/483,749.
Application 17/483,749 is a continuation of application No. 16/525,377, filed on Jul. 29, 2019, granted, now 11,159,922.
Application 16/525,377 is a continuation of application No. 15/400,780, filed on Jan. 6, 2017, granted, now 10,368,208, issued on Jul. 30, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/349,086, filed on Jun. 12, 2016.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/349,113, filed on Jun. 12, 2016.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/349,091, filed on Jun. 12, 2016.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/349,101, filed on Jun. 12, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2022/0191653 A1, Jun. 16, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04W 4/14 (2009.01); H04M 1/72436 (2021.01); H04L 51/216 (2022.01); H04L 51/08 (2022.01); H04L 51/58 (2022.01)
CPC H04W 4/14 (2013.01) [H04L 51/216 (2022.05); H04M 1/72436 (2021.01); H04L 51/08 (2013.01); H04L 51/58 (2022.05)] 33 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing executable program instructions which when executed by a computer system having a display cause the computer system to:
display a messaging user interface on the display, the messaging user interface including a conversation transcript of a messaging session between a user of the computer system and at least one other user, including a first other user, wherein
the conversation transcript includes a plurality of messages and is displayed in a conversation transcript region of the messaging user interface; and
the plurality of messages in the conversation transcript includes one or more received messages, received from the first other user, and sent messages, sent to at least the first other user; and
wherein the displaying includes:
displaying, in the conversation transcript region of the messaging user interface, the one or more received messages in a received message layer having a first Z depth; and
displaying, in the conversation transcript region of the messaging user interface, the sent messages in a sent message layer having a second Z depth different from the first Z depth; and
displaying, in the conversation transcript region of the messaging user interface, animated content in a third layer having a third Z depth different from the first Z depth and second Z depth.