ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,337, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Sococo LLC (Austin, Texas).
"Routing virtual area based communications" was invented by Robert J. Butler (Coralville, Iowa), Joseph Altmaier (Eugene, Ore.) and David Van Wie (Eugene, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In association with a virtual area, a first network connection is established with a first network node present in the virtual area and a second network connection is established with a second network node present in the virtual area. Based on stream routing instructions, a stream router is created between the first network node and the second network node. The stream router in...