Question Stickers and Quotable Stories for Anonymous Feedback

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing messaging applications lack engaging and efficient ways for users to share media content and receive feedback, particularly through question stickers and quotable stories that enhance user interaction and privacy.

Innovation Solution

Implementing question stickers with pre-defined, randomized messages and quotable stories that allow users to incorporate viewer feedback anonymously, enhancing engagement and privacy features in messaging applications.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If users share media content via messaging applications, then content sharing capability is improved, but user engagement and feedback mechanisms are insufficient

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent sharing capabilityVSAvoiduser engagement

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements feedback mechanisms through question stickers that prompt viewers to respond with questions or comments, and through quotable stories that collect and display viewer feedback. This transforms passive content viewing into active engagement with measurable feedback loops.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces stickers and stories as intermediary elements between content creators and viewers. These intermediaries facilitate engagement by providing structured ways for viewers to interact with content and for creators to receive and incorporate feedback.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Adaptability or versatility

If users incorporate viewer feedback into content, then collaboration is improved, but user privacy is compromised

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecollaboration capabilityVSAvoidprivacy loss

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts personally identifiable information from viewer feedback before incorporating it into quotable stories. Anonymous attribution removes identifying details while preserving the essence of viewer comments, enabling collaboration without exposing user identities.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent uses ephemeral stories with time-limited visibility and anonymous feedback mechanisms. The temporary nature of stories and the anonymization of feedback create low-risk engagement opportunities where privacy concerns are minimized through controlled disclosure.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #27Cheap short-living objects (Disposable)

3Ease of operation

If messaging applications include interactive features, then user engagement is improved, but application complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveuser engagementVSAvoidapplication complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements multi-functional stickers that can serve as both decorative elements and interactive question prompts. These stickers combine visual appeal with engagement functionality, reducing the need for separate features while maintaining user engagement.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent provides pre-defined question templates and sticker options that users can select without creating content from scratch. This preliminary preparation of interactive elements simplifies the user interface while enabling rich engagement scenarios.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS12476928B2Quotable stories and stickers for messaging applications

Publication Date: 2025.11.18 SNAP INC

AI summary

A system includes one or more hardware processors and at least one memory storing instructions that cause the one or more hardware processors to perform operations including receiving, via a client device, one or more response messages to a question sticker or to a story, and selecting, via the client device, a response message of the one or more response messages for publication. The operations also include selecting, via the client device, a privacy setting for the response message, and publishing, via the client device, the response message.