Snap Assigned Patent

Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA, has been assigned a patent (11516167) developed by Baron, Bradley, Hollis, Benjamin Ralph, Seattle, WA, and Schumacher, Joshua, Des Moines, WA, for “storing data based on device location.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Systems and methods are provided for storing data based on device location. The systems and methods include operations for: determining, by a messaging application server, a geographical location associated with a client device, identifying, by the messaging application server, a plurality of storage devices located in different geographical regions, computing, by the messaging application server, a plurality of distances between the geographical location associated the client device and the geographical regions of the plurality of storage devices, selecting, by the messaging application server based on the computed plurality of distances, a first storage device of the plurality of storage device that is in a geographical region that is closest to the geographical location associated with the client device, and storing, by the messaging application server on the first storage device, data associated with a messaging application implemented on the client device.”

The patent application was filed on 2020-03-05 (16/810521).