Patents Assigned to Level 3 Communication, LLC
  • Publication number: 20240163114
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to installing a security certificate. A method may include identifying, by a network provisioning abstraction layer (NPAL) of a network provisioning system, a digital certificate file received from a certificate management system (CMS); identifying a session boarder controller (SBC) that supports transport layer security (TLS); uploading the digital certificate file to the identified SBC; installing a remote certificate at the identified SBC; enabling the remote certificate at the identified SBC; and sending, based on enabling the remote certificate at the identified SBC, a notification to the CMS indicating that a remote certificate has been installed at the identified SBC.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Matthew MAHER, George McFALLS, Michael CHAN, Craig FOUCHER, Darren BEHMLANDER, Michael MILLER
  • Publication number: 20240163351
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to using an application programming interface (API) gateway orchestration layer. A method may include identifying, by the API gateway orchestration layer, a first API request, received by an API gateway API, to access a first microservice of a first API gateway that uses a first API gateway model; identifying a second API request, received by the API gateway API, to access a second microservice of a second API gateway that uses a second API gateway model; determining, based on the first API request, a first route to the first API gateway; determining, based on the second API request, a second route to the second API gateway; routing the first API request to the first microservice based on the first route; and routing the second API request to the second microservice based on the second route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Matthew JOHNSON, Thomas DURDIN, Jeff SCHEUFELE, John T. PUGACZEWSKI
  • Publication number: 20240163590
    Abstract: Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems and methods for a configurable optical peering fabric to dynamically create a connection between participant sites without any physical site limitations or necessity of specialized client and network provider equipment being located within such a facility. Client sites to a network may connect to a configurable switching element to be interconnected to other client sites in response to a request to connect the first client site with a second site, also connected to network, via the switching element. A request may trigger verification of the requested and, upon validation, transmission of an instruction to the switching element to enable the cross connect within the switching element. The first site and the second site may thus be interconnected via the switching element in response to the request, without the need to co-locate equipment or to manually install a jumper between client equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Laurel Clark, Clyde David Cooper, III, Andrew Dugan
  • Publication number: 20240163310
    Abstract: Embodiments are provided for managing routes of data traffic within a network. The management may be performed via a graphical user interface that interacts with a Web server to update a configuration file. The configuration file can be converted to router management commands by a network management device (e.g., a BGP speaker). The commands can then be sent to border routers for controlling network traffic. Embodiments are also provided for capturing and logging routing updates made in a network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Smith, Shawn Marck
  • Publication number: 20240146609
    Abstract: Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems and methods for custom-defined network routing. In one implementation, a set of custom defined network flow rules is received at an edge router of a primary network, which is in communication with a customer network. The set of custom defined network flow rules correspond to network traffic associated with the customer network. The set of custom defined network flow rules is stored in a forwarding table on the edge router. A packet of data is received at the edge router. The packet of data is attributed to the customer network. The set of custom defined network flow rules is applied to the pack of data using the forwarding table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2024
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Eric Osborne
  • Publication number: 20240146658
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, computer program products, and the like, for controlling a congestion window (CWND) value of a communication session of a CDN. In particular, a content server may analyze a request to determine or receive an indication of the type of content being requested. The content server may then set the initial CWND based on the type of content being requested. For example, the content server may set a relatively high CWND value for requested content that is not particularly large, such as image files or text, so that the data of the content is received at the client device quickly. For larger files or files that a have a determined smaller urgency, the initial CWND may be set at a lower value to ensure that providing the data of the content does not congest the link between the devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2024
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Joelle T. Maslak
  • Publication number: 20240146667
    Abstract: Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing intent-based orchestration using network parsimony trees. In various embodiments, in response to receiving a request for network services that comprises desired characteristics and performance parameters for the requested network services without information regarding specific hardware, hardware type, location, or network, a computing system might generate a request-based parsimony tree based on the desired characteristics and performance parameters. The computing system might access, from a datastore, a plurality of network-based parsimony trees that are each generated based on measured network metrics, might compare the request-based parsimony tree with each of one or more network-based parsimony trees to determine a fitness score for each network-based parsimony tree, and might identify a best-fit network-based parsimony tree based on the fitness scores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Kevin M. McBride, Brett E. Dwyer, James E. Sutherland, Jamie Lin, Brent Smith, Glenn B. Balanoff, Frank Moss, Bryan Dreyer
  • Publication number: 20240146576
    Abstract: One or more encapsulation tunnel aggregator devices are distributed across a provider's network. The tunnel aggregator device(s) may receive clean return traffic from a managed security router (MSR) and route the traffic to a customer endpoint via an encapsulation tunnel, thereby reducing the routing burden on the MSR. The tunnel aggregator device(s) may be deployed in physical or logical proximity to an MSR, which may facilitate the routing of return traffic from the MSR to the tunnel aggregator device(s), for ultimate transmission to a customer endpoint. In other examples, a tunnel aggregator device may be deployed in proximity to other provider network resources, such as a provider edge router.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Michael FELDPUSCH, William HOXWORTH
  • Publication number: 20240146762
    Abstract: Systems and methods for improved intelligent manipulation of distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attack traffic are provided. In implementations, a method may include receiving, at a traffic management system, a mirrored first stream of packets from a router on a first link and a mirrored second stream of packets from the router on a second link. The method may further include determining flow information about the first stream. In examples, the flow information may indicate that a challenge to a particular source IP address has been issued to test the legitimacy of the source IP address. The method may further include sending, by the traffic management system, a routing policy update based on the flow information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Christian JENSEN, Michael FELDPUSCH
  • Publication number: 20240135179
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to testing servers provisioned in an edge computing device. An edge computing device may detect that a server has been provisioned to access a public network cloud using backbone routers of the edge computing device; provide a neural network for evaluating a probability that a performance of the server will satisfy performance criteria, the neural network trained based on training data comprising labeled settings data and feature weights; input settings and configurations associated with the provisioning of the server as inputs to the neural network; and generate, using the neural network, based on the inputs and the training data, a confidence score indicative of the probability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Bryan DREYER, Brent SMITH, James SUTHERLAND
  • Publication number: 20240134889
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to analyzing data stored in a relational database. A method may include installing a structured query language (SQL) server on a host server; installing statistical analysis modules on the host server; executing the statistical analysis modules within a relational database of the SQL server to analyze data stored in the relational database; and generating outputs based on the execution of the statistical analysis modules within the relational database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Idilio MONCIVAIS-PINEDO
  • Publication number: 20240137248
    Abstract: A system and method for providing on-demand edge compute. The system may include an orchestrator that provides a UI and that controls an abstraction layer for implementing a workflow for providing on-demand edge compute. The abstraction layer may include a server configuration orchestration (SCO) system (e.g., a Metal-as-a-Service (MaaS) system) and API that may provide an interface between the orchestrator and the SCO. The API may enable the orchestrator to communicate with the SCO for receiving requests that enable the SCO to integrate with existing compute resources to perform various compute provisioning tasks (e.g., to build and provision a server instance). The various tasks, when executed, may provide on-demand edge compute service to users. The SCO API may further enable the ECS orchestrator to receive information from the SCO (e.g., compute resource information, status messages).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Austin Ritchie, Scott Hemmann, Wen Wang, Brett Dwyer
  • Patent number: 11968084
    Abstract: A method on a device in a content delivery (CD) network (CDN) that distributes content on behalf of one or more subscribers. In response to receiving configuration information from a subscriber, the configuration information relating to at least one property of the subscriber, generating subscriber-specific platform configuration information for the at least one property. Storing the subscriber-specific platform configuration information in platform configuration storage. Invalidating prior platform configuration information associated with the particular subscriber. Responsive to a request from a CDN component for platform configuration information associated with the particular subscriber: obtaining the subscriber-specific platform configuration information from the platform configuration storage; and providing the subscriber-specific platform configuration information to the CDN component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Laurence Lipstone, Christopher Newton, William Crowder, Vikas Dogra, Kevin Johns
  • Patent number: 11968174
    Abstract: Systems and methods for blocking spoofed traffic within communications networks include obtaining, at a computing system, routing information for an autonomous system of a communications network, the routing information identifying Internet Protocol (IP) addresses associated with the autonomous system. In response to receiving the routing information, the computing system generates a prefix list based on the routing information, the prefix list including one or more prefixes encompassing the IP addresses identified by the routing information. The computing system then transmits instructions to a network device of the communications network configured to cause the network device to update a filter function of the network device based on the prefix list such that the network device permits network traffic that originates from IP addresses within the prefixes of the prefix list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Brent W. Smith
  • Publication number: 20240129074
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and storage media for detecting a security intrusion of a network device are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may include a method involving, in the network device including a processor, monitor a light signal associated with a security enabled port of the network device; and in response to detecting a change in the light signal, initiate a security alert.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Steven E. Drake, Morgan M. Pofahl
  • Publication number: 20240129225
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, computer program products, and the like, for providing multiple egress points from a telecommunications network for a client of the network. In particular, the process and system allows for multiple provider edges of the network to utilize a route reflector server to provide a border gateway protocol (BGP) route to other provider edges in the network. Further, the multiple provider edges may each announce similar interior gateway protocol (IGP) routes through the network such that a provider edge receiving a packet intended for the customer network may select from the multiple IGP routes to provide the intended packet to the customer network. In this manner, the receiving provider edge may load balance among the various connections of the customer network to the telecommunications network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Eric Osborne, Brent W. Smith
  • Publication number: 20240126862
    Abstract: Examples described herein relate to apparatuses and methods for associating a first account with a second account, the first account being hosted by a first server, the second account being hosted by a second server, including but not limited to, authenticating, by the first server, first login credentials associated with the first account, wherein the first login credentials are received from a user device, receiving, by the first server from the user device, second login credentials associated with the second account, sending, by the first server, the second login credentials to the second server for authentication, in response to determining that the second login credentials are authenticated by the second server, associating, by the first server, the first account with the second account, and connecting, by the first server to the second server, to allow the user device to access services commensurate with the second account without prompting the user device for the second login credentials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Christopher Newton
  • Patent number: 11962722
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems and methods for a collaboration conferencing system to track a total number of concurrently utilized ports across any number of conferencing bridges of the network for a particular customer and one or more billing actions may occur based on this tracking. This may result in an alternate billing option for the customer's use of the system. Further, a telecommunications network administrator may provide access to the collaboration conferencing system based on a total number of concurrently utilized ports rather than on a per conference or per minute basis. With the information of the number of purchased ports by the customer, the administrator may more accurately predict an available capacity for the collaboration conferencing system needed to support all of the users of the system and the potential collaboration conferences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew J. Broadworth, Robert F. Nance, Gregory T. Ellison
  • Patent number: 11956384
    Abstract: The present application describes providing an attestation level to a received communication. The attestation level may be used to communicate a level of security to a network or a called party that receives the communication. The attestation level associated with the communication may indicate to a destination network and/or recipient that the phone number associated with the communication is secure and/or the telephone number has not been spoofed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Richard D. Moore, Joseph Roy, Joseph Scivicque, Matthew C Hess, George Wendell McFalls
  • Publication number: 20240113999
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for distributing a domain name service (DNS) response cache in a DNS resolving system on a network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Feldpusch, Dan Luther