ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,044, issued on May 26, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Presentation of media content as flashbacks" was invented by Nathan Kenneth Boyd (Los Angeles), Marc Brown (New York) and Hao Long (Playa Vista, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer instructions are provided. The method includes retrieving a first set of a media content transmitted by a plurality of interaction clients based on a chronological order, wherein the first set of media content has been saved as part of communications of ephemeral messages between at least two users of the plurality of interaction clients. The method fu...