US Patent Issued to Snap on July 28 for "Messaging system of partial and out-of-order events" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,718, issued on July 28, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Messaging system of partial and out-of-order events" was invented by Bradley Baron (Seattle), Benjamin Ralph Hollis (Seattle), Gavin Shriver (Seattle) and Peter Cardwell (Bainbridge Island, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer readable medium are provided for receiving an event message in a plurality of event messages, the event message comprising a sequence number and associated data, identifying the event message as an out-of-order event message based on the sequence number, assigning a priority level to the out-of-order event ...