ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,923, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Establishing and managing connections for real time communications" was invented by Rameshkumar Ayyasamy Jayapal (Mount Laurel, N.J.), Manoj Chaudhari (Dayton, N.J.), Naresh Mudupu (Mount Laurel, N.J.), Chris Wendt (Exton, Pa.), Saravanan Muthusamy (Wayne, Pa.), Balachandar Gurusamy (King of Prussia, Pa.) and Neppoliyan Thangavelu (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems related to supporting real time communications are disclosed. In one type of a real time communication session, prior to an offer and acceptance to perform...