Patent ID: 11888795
Assignee: SNAP INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 19:
20. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium that includes instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:
displaying an alert that a given sound is associated with a message without revealing contents of the given sound, the given sound being received from a device of a user;
displaying, at a display position, an avatar of the user of the device from which the given sound was received before revealing the contents of the given sound; and
displaying, at a display position, an avatar of the user of the device from which the given sound was received before revealing the contents of the given sound and without presenting sound information corresponding to the given sound;
receiving input that selects the avatar; and
in response to receiving the input that selects the avatar:
retrieving the sound information for the given sound;
replacing display of the avatar with display, at the display position, of the retrieved sound information; and
initiating playback of the given sound.