Patent ID: 11882165
Assignee: SOCOCO, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  A  G | IPC A  G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method comprising:
administering realtime communications between network nodes respectively associated with communicants in a network communications environment, wherein administering the realtime communications comprises:
establishing a respective peer-to-peer session over a respective link with each of multiple network nodes in accordance with a connectionless transport protocol;

on behalf of one or more of the communicants, automatically opening one or more channels over which data is transmitted between the network nodes in the one or more respective peer-to-peer sessions, wherein each channel is identified by a respective unique identifier;
in response to a determination that one of the peer-to-peer sessions with a particular one of the network nodes has stopped, automatically attempting to establish another peer-to-peer session with the particular one of the network nodes in accordance with the connectionless transport protocol; and
in response to successful establishment of the other peer-to-peer session with the particular one of the network nodes, automatically opening one or more of the channels that previously were open in the prior respective session.