SSOAR · Canonical Family Map

The Hermes-Echo Patent Family

Three filings enclose the governed interaction. Seven coordinated filings govern distinct material mutations within it. Together they express one session-authority invariant across ten technical domains.

One governed interval. One surviving authority root. Every material mutation evaluated before it becomes authoritative state, with proof bound to the resulting record.

The 3-7-10 structure

The family is not a collection of unrelated feature patents. It is a coordinated architecture. Hermes-Echo, Warten, and Ludwig’s Raven define the temporal and participation enclosure. The seven sibling filings address different ways that state, compute, data, devices, trust, and machine action can change inside that enclosure.

Before admission

Warten

Governs authorized third-party content and activity while a participant is held in the pre-admission state.

Participation boundary

Ludwig’s Raven

Negotiates who may participate, through which modality, and under which accessibility or capability conditions.

During mutation

Hermes-Echo

Preserves the operative session-authority boundary while media or interaction state changes inside the live session.

The same governing authority remains controlling through the material change. An unrelated authority root is not substituted inside the governed interaction.

The ten coordinated filings

No.	Filing	Technical domain	Authority surface governed
1	Hermes-Echo	Compute systems and processes for video messages	Authority continuity when a live media interaction mutates into retrieval, playback, recording, storage, or delivery without originating a second independent session authority.
2	Warten	Pre-recorded content in a video-call waiting room	What may occur before admission, under whose credential or delegated authority, and within which pre-admission interaction boundary.
3	Ludwig’s Raven	Dynamic accessibility negotiation in selective multimedia distribution	Participant admission, modality, accessibility, and selective distribution conditions under the same governed interaction.
4	Muninn	AI pipeline negotiation and inference routing	Admission, substitution, and routing of AI models, agents, tools, and inference pipelines inside the session boundary.
5	Quetzalcoatl	Merge, fork, cascade, and handoff orchestration	Authority and context continuity when interactions branch, combine, transfer, or form multi-step session graphs.
6	Zhinü	Multimodal orchestration for IoT, XR, robotics, and telemetry	Heterogeneous devices and modalities joining, leaving, or changing capability without replacing the governing interaction identity.
7	Lakshmi	Session-level compute marketplace and cost-optimized orchestration	Compute placement, migration, provider selection, and workload allocation as governed session mutations rather than external infrastructure events.
8	The Griot	Session-native recording and replay provenance	Binding recordings, derived artifacts, model attribution, processing history, and authorized replay views to the interaction that produced them.
9	Hari Seldon	Session-level data residency routing	Jurisdiction, residency, processing location, and stream-specific routing decisions within the live governed interval.
10	Deganawida	Zero-trust session attestation and auxiliary-stream governance	Continuous trust, delegation, per-stream authorization, and machine action without relying on a one-time access decision.

Why it is a picket fence

Each filing addresses a technically distinct control point. The posts are orthogonal, not stacked as a mandatory sequence. A system may encounter the common invariant through a single material mutation: a handoff, a model substitution, a compute move, a new device, a jurisdictional change, an accessibility change, a derivative record, or an autonomous action.

This matters because avoiding one implementation does not necessarily avoid the architecture. A design that moves the same governed interaction through a different technical surface may reach another coordinated filing. The family therefore protects the control structure from several directions while keeping each claimed invention tied to its own technical combination.

Before, during, and after

Before: establish admission, authority, participation, restrictions, modality, and jurisdiction.

During: evaluate each material mutation under the authority governing the live interaction before the proposed change becomes authoritative session state.

After: bind the resulting state, action, recording, or derivative artifact to proof of the governed interaction and the authority under which the transition occurred.

Observation after the event is not governance. Logs may show what happened. The family addresses whether the transition was authorized to become session truth in the first place.

Current public status

Issued

Hermes-Echo

U.S. Patent No. 12,659,408, issued June 16, 2026, with twenty claims.

Allowed

Warten

U.S. Application No. 19/395,642. Claims 1 through 19 allowed. Issue fee paid. Not yet issued.

Pending

Ludwig’s Raven and siblings

Coordinated pending filings preserve the remaining authority surfaces across the 3-7-10 architecture.

Continuing

Continuation depth

Hermes-Hecate continues from Hermes-Echo. Warten-Janus continues from Warten. The prosecution architecture remains active.

Patent scope is determined by the issued claims and the complete facts of a particular implementation. The architectural map explains the coordinated family; it does not substitute for claim-specific legal analysis.

How to read the family

The Missing Dimension
Why the live interaction is the authority-bearing object.
What Hermes-Echo Is
The issued anchor and the distinction between transport continuity and authority continuity.
Authority Surfaces
How the same missing architectural object appears in different technical vocabularies.
Record
Current prosecution status and public-record references.
Diligence Index
Structured entry points for technical, legal, commercial, and operational review.

Follow the family through the site

The family page is the canonical portfolio map. The pages below develop the invention, record, implementation logic, failure evidence, and commercial consequences from different directions.

Core architecture

Patent record and diligence

Authority surfaces

System constraints and failure evidence

Commercial and public materials

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