ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,441, issued on July 29, was assigned to DISCORD INC. (San Francisco).
"Undedicated lobby servers" was invented by Michael Coker (Richardson, Texas) and Mark Lohstroh (Plano, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology provides a lobby system including lobby servers and game servers, whereby the lobby server functions as the hub for all connected users for an entire server. The single lobby server processes all incoming traffic but is largely unaware of the actual logic & data for the game that is being played. Its main function is to provide basic operations such as listing games, listing users, and providing game sta...