US 11,537,273 B1 · Compound animation showing user interactions

Abstract

An online system presents a content item to users and receives selections of reaction icons from the users. The online system generates a background animation with the selected reaction icons and a foreground animation to be layered on top of the background animation. The online system sends the background and foreground animations to a client device to be cached. Further, the online system presents the content item to a viewing user associated with the client device and receives a selection of a reaction icon from the viewing user. The online system selects a subset of the users based on the viewing user's affinity to the users, retrieves images of the selected users, and send the images to the client device. The client device customizes the background and foreground animations based on the images and the viewing user's reaction icon to generate a compound animation for display to the viewing user.

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Dependent claims

A method comprising:

generating an animation comprising a plurality of reaction icons associated with a content item;
providing the content item for display to a viewing user on a client device associated with the viewing user;
receiving selection of a reaction icon from the viewing user;
in response to the viewing user's selection of the reaction icon, retrieving images associated with one or more users who are associated with the content item;
and
sending the retrieved images and the generated animation to the client device associated with the viewing user to generate a reaction animation that includes a plurality of layers, each layer comprising one or more of the following:
(1) the reaction icon selected by the viewing user, (2) the generated animation, and (3) the retrieved images, wherein the client device is configured to display the reaction animation, and at least a portion of the reaction animation is overlaying the content item.

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A non-transitory computer readable medium storing executable computer program instructions, the computer program instructions comprising instructions that when executed cause a computer processor to:

generate an animation comprising a plurality of reaction icons associated with a content item;
provide the content item for display to a viewing user on a client device associated with the viewing user;
receive selection of a reaction icon from the viewing user;
in response to the viewing user's selection of the reaction icon, retrieve images associated with one or more users who are associated with the content item;
and
send the retrieved images and the generated animation to the client device associated with the viewing user to generate a reaction animation that includes a plurality of layers, each layer comprising one or more of the following:
(1) the reaction icon selected by the viewing user, (2) the generated animation, and (3) the retrieved images, wherein the client device is configured to display the reaction animation, and at least a portion of the reaction animation is overlaying the content item.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Compound animation showing user interactions

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Compound animation showing user interactions

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Abstract

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