Two issued patents · Patent-pending family

The work changes.
The authority
must hold.

Hermes-Echo, Warten and Ludwig’s Raven address three connected parts of a live interaction: how it changes, what happens before admission, and how each person participates.

Anchored in two issued U.S. patents, Hermes-Echo (US 12,659,408 B2) and Warten (US 12,771,808 B2), the family includes seven governance siblings and two published pending continuation branches: Hermes-Hecate and Warten-Janus.

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The structure of the family

Three core inventions. Seven governance siblings. Hecate continues 001; Janus continues Warten.

Hermes-Echo · Patent issuedUS 12,659,408 B2 · June 16, 2026

Hermes-Hecate · Published; pending001.001 · US 2026/0270347 A1

Warten · Issued19 issued claims · US 12,771,808 B2

Warten-Janus · Patent pendingContinuation of 002 · Filed June 24, 2026

Ludwig’s Raven · Patent pendingProvisional filed October 22, 2025

The foundation of the family

Three inventions.
One governed interaction.

Session change, pre-admission activity and accessible participation establish the core. Each invention has its own function, claims and patent status.

001 · Issued patent · US 12,659,408 B2

Hermes-Echo

The interaction can change.

A call can become a selected response and a recorded reply while the operations remain under one session authority boundary.

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002 · Issued patent · US 12,771,808 B2

Warten

The waiting interval is governed.

Delivers authorized content before admission through the existing session’s transport and encryption context. Issued claim 8 includes synchronized captions.

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003 · Patent pending · Provisional filed

Ludwig’s Raven

Participation fits the person.

Negotiates participant-specific accessibility needs and selectively delivers captions, translation, enhanced audio or sign-language services as those needs change within the session.

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Accessibility is already part of Warten. Its issued claim 8 adds synchronized captions generated from media metadata. Ludwig’s Raven makes participant-specific accessibility negotiation and selective service delivery the focus of its own filing.

Seven additional patent-pending inventions govern what changes within the interaction: AI services, handoffs and session graphs, devices and media, compute placement, provenance, data residency and trust. Explore the full family.

Continuation branches

The issued anchor and its continuing development.

Hecate and Janus belong on the family map alongside their parents. Each continuation has its own application and claim record.

Continuation of 001 · Published; patent pending

001.001 Hermes-Hecate

Published claims address retrieving, streaming and receiving responses to selected data assets while preventing a new session context from being created during those operations.

Continuation of 002 · Published; patent pending

Warten-Janus

Janus published as US 2026/0322947 A1 on October 15, 2026. The continuation remains patent pending.

The shared architectural idea

Authority that survives mutation, with proof.

A session is the span of an undertaking: who may participate, what they may do, and what remains binding when something changes.

A missed call, a waiting participant and an accessibility requirement are practical problems with a common question: can the interaction change while the authority governing it remains in control?

SSOAR means Session-Scoped Orthogonal Authority and Routing. The shared constraint is continuity of governing authority through change, with evidence bound to the resulting state. It applies to interactions involving people, services, devices and AI agents.

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Commercial conversations

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Issued and published claims, drawings, notices of allowance, international search reports and the 001 prosecution summary are available here. Technical, legal and commercial reading paths help your team evaluate the opportunity.

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The explanation.
The evidence. The record.

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Engineering

How the authority boundary works, and where the implementation questions begin.

Patents & records

Two issued patents, published pending continuations, the family tree and supporting evidence.

Thinking

The arguments, analogies, and observations behind the architecture.

Due diligence

Reading paths for legal, technical, and commercial review.

Substack essays

The published essays, with editorial introductions and connected reading paths.

White papers

The research papers and glossary, with their Zenodo archives.

From the publication archive

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