ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,884, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Sococo LLC (Austin, Texas).
"Realtime kernel" was invented by David Van Wie (Eugene, Ore.) and Joseph Altmaier (North Liberty, Iowa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A realtime kernel supports realtime communications between communicants operating on respective network nodes. The realtime kernel handles the complex tasks of connecting to communicants, virtual areas, and other network resources, switching those connections in response to user inputs, and mixing realtime data streams. The realtime kernel enables developers to focus on developing high-level communications functionality instead of low...