US Patent Issued to Sococo on Feb. 18 for "Promoting communicant interactions in a network communications environment" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,854, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Sococo Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Promoting communicant interactions in a network communications environment" was invented by Matthew Leacock (Sunnyvale, Calif.), David Van Wie (Eugene, Ore.) and Paul J. Brody (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a network communications environment supporting realtime communications between respective network nodes of a user and other communicants in virtual areas each of which is associated with its own respective set of communicant members, a graphical user interface is provided in connection with the user's network node. The graphical user inter...