US Patent Issued to Snap on July 7 for "Video notification system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,036, issued on July 7, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Video notification system" was invented by Dmitry Berezhnoy (San Francisco), Fei Li (Fremont, Calif.), Venkatraman Sridharan (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Ian Anthony Wehrman (Venice, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for notifying users about videos in a playback sequence. The systems and methods determine that a video that meets a criterion is currently available on a video server associated with a messaging client. In response to determining that the video that meets the criterion is currently available, the messaging client on...