US 12,438,839 B2
Rule-based messaging and user interaction system
Jacob Catalano, Santa Monica, CA (US); Christie Marie Heikkinen, Sherman Oaks, CA (US); and Vineet Kapil, Santa Monica, CA (US)
Assigned to Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US)
Filed by Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US)
Filed on Jan. 31, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/429,028.
Claims priority of application No. 202311007848 (IN), filed on Feb. 7, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2024/0267351 A1, Aug. 8, 2024
Int. Cl. H04L 51/212 (2022.01); H04L 51/063 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 51/212 (2022.05) [H04L 51/063 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An interaction system comprising:
at least one processor; and
a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, configure the interaction system to:
receive, from a first user device, a user-selected rule for a messaging mode to be applied to a message sent from the first user device to a second user device;
store the user-selected rule in a database;
receive a request to send the message from the first user device to the second user device;
access the database to retrieve the user-selected rule;
based on the user-selected rule, apply the messaging mode to the message; and
cause or facilitate a transmission of the message from the first user device to the second user device;
wherein the messaging mode includes an obscuring of an aspect of the message sent from the first user device to the second user device;
wherein the obscuring renders the aspect blurred, unreadable, invisible, or illegible to a user accessing the message at the second user device;
wherein the user-selected rule includes a condition required to be satisfied by the user accessing the message at the second user device in order for the obscured aspect of the message to be unobscured and rendered unblurred, readable, visible, or legible to the user accessing the message at the second user device;
wherein the obscured aspect of the message includes an image;
wherein the condition required to be satisfied includes a receipt by the first user device of a reply to the message, the reply composed by the user accessing the message at the second user device and sent from the second user device, wherein the condition required to be satisfied further requires receipt of an image to be included in the reply to the message composed by the user accessing the message at the second user device; and
wherein the instructions further configure the interaction system to obscure the obscured aspect of the message based on a receipt by the first user device of the reply to the message, the reply to the message including an image thereby satisfying the condition required to be satisfied in order for the obscured aspect of the message to be unobscured.