Patent ID: 9391934
Filing Date: 2016-07-12
CPC Classification: G06F,G06T,H04L,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: providing, to a touch screen display of a computing device, a messaging graphical user interface comprising a communication thread comprising a plurality of electronic messages exchanged between a user and one or more co-users; detecting, by at least one processor of the computing device, a selection of a camera viewfinder input control; providing a camera viewfinder that provides a live data stream from a camera of the computing device in the messaging graphical user interface in response to the detection of the selection of the camera viewfinder input control; detecting, by the at least one processor of the computing device, a first type of user interaction with the camera viewfinder; and in response to the detected first type of user interaction, capturing, by the camera of the computing device, a multimedia content item and sending, by the computing device, the captured multimedia content item as an electronic message.