Patents Assigned to Level 3 Communication, LLC
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Patent number: 11310131Abstract: A data network analysis system includes a computer-executable set of instructions that obtain service account information associated with a route provided to a customer through a data communication network having network elements. Using the service account information, the instructions identify a termination port that terminates the route to a customer premises equipment of the customer, and at least one target port of the route and those network elements that are assigned to convey the route through one or more of the network elements. The instructions then obtain the routing information for the route from each of the network elements that are assigned to convey the route.Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 2016Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: Steve R. Wakumoto, Andrew S. Gerber, John D. Clouatre
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Publication number: 20220116160Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: Steven E. Drake, Morgan M. Pofahl
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Publication number: 20220116477Abstract: A content delivery network (CDN) includes a plurality of CDN components including at least one CDN rendezvous mechanism and at least one control core. The CDN components are controlled by control core data from the at least one control core. Some CDN components obtain CDN resources including control core data from at least some other CDN components. The CDN components use the CDN rendezvous mechanism to select one or more CDN components from which to obtain CDN resources.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: Laurence R. Lipstone, William Crowder, Jeffrey G. Koller, David Fullagar, Maksim Yevmenkin, Christopher Newton
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Publication number: 20220116314Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, computer program products, and the like, for utilizing a CIC value field in signaling information of a communication to provide an identification of the ingress network to an egress or receiving network of a long distance telecommunications network. The system and method provides for the provisioning of a signaling CIC for an ingress trunkgroup or network to a telecommunications network for downstream signaling purposes by overriding a received CIC value with a provisioned CIC value specific to the ingress network. This provisioned CIC value identifies the ingress network to the long distance network to the egress network for use by the egress network.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventor: David A. Tschirhart
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Publication number: 20220116474Abstract: Provided is a content delivery method and architecture for ways to improve the caching of content at one or more content providing devices of a Content Delivery Network (CDN). In particular, systems and methods are disclosed that vary the requirements to store resources or content within a caching device using a dynamic popularity threshold. This popularity threshold may be varied based on a measured fullness of the storage capacity of the cache device. In another example, the dynamic popularity threshold may be further varied based on a cache pressure, which is an indication of how often the cache replaces stored items with new items. The adjustment to the popularity threshold for caching particular content at the caching device may thus be based on a number of requests for content received at the device to tune the caching procedure for a particular region of the CDN.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: William R. Power, Pawel Jakobowski
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Patent number: 11303723Abstract: Improved methods for retrieval of content from CDNs is provided that includes a rendezvous controller that receives information of an identification of content being requested and an estimated location of a content requesting device. Based on this information, the rendezvous system identifies a server within a CDN from which the requested content may be retrieved. The selected server may be based on a repeatable hash function such that the likelihood that the content being requested is cached at the selected server. Steering requests to a server of the CDN which may have the content cached may reduce the number of servers within the CDN with the same cached content, particularly for the highest requested content. The rendezvous system may then return a corresponding domain name associated with the selected server and that can be subsequently submitted to a DNS for resolution to the IP address of the identified server.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2019Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventor: Kevin C. Johns
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Patent number: 11303542Abstract: Systems and methods of disconnecting a network service provided over a network service path include using a computing device that obtains a service identifier assigned to network service and identifies a port of a network device included in a network service path associated with the service. The computing device transmits a request to the network device for port configuration data of the network device and based on the received port configuration data, determines whether the port is assigned to the network service. If so, the computing devices executes a remediation operation which includes transmitting a reconfiguration command to the network device that is adapted to cause the network device to update the port configuration data to free the port.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2020Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: Brian V. H. Nguyen, Shellie Wickham
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Patent number: 11303844Abstract: A computer-implemented method obtains a plurality of image files, each corresponding to an image in a video stream and builds a common file from a contiguous grouping of the plurality of image files. The video stream has a plurality of contiguous video segments, each having a first video frame, and the plurality of image files correspond to the plurality of first video frames of the plurality of video segments. The plurality of video segments are of approximately equal duration.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2017Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: William Crowder, Jeffrey G. Koller, David Fullagar
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Patent number: 11296928Abstract: Examples described herein relate to systems and methods for containing a faulty stimulus. A computer-implemented method may include listing in a suspect list every received stimulus including the faulty stimulus, and implicitly testing the stimuli by respectively acting upon those stimuli by a software application. Responsive to successfully acting upon each of the stimuli besides the faulty stimulus, each non-faulty stimulus is deleted from the suspect list and, responsive to such deletion, made available to a downstream node. Responsive to acting upon the faulty stimulus, the software application crashes which leaves the faulty stimulus listed in the suspect list. The software application then restarts and deems the faulty stimulus as being faulty based upon the faulty stimulus still being listed in the suspect list after the restart.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2020Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventor: William Crowder
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Publication number: 20220103600Abstract: Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing monitoring and detection of fraudulent or unauthorized use in telephone conferencing systems or voice networks. In various embodiments, a computing system might monitor call activity through telephone conferencing system or voice network. In response to detecting use of the telephone conferencing system or voice network by at least one party based on the monitored call activity, the computing system might identify incoming and/or outgoing associated with a call initiated by the at least one party. The computing system might analyze the identified incoming and/or outgoing call data to determine whether the call initiated by the at least one party constitutes at least one of fraudulent use or unauthorized use of the telephone conferencing system or voice network. If so, the computing system might initiate one or more first actions.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2021Publication date: March 31, 2022Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: Adam Uzelac, Andrew J. Broadworth, Robert P. Slaughter
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Publication number: 20220103468Abstract: Systems and methods for routing traffic through a network along Label-Switched Paths (LSPs) that may extend across multiple autonomous systems include performing Internet Protocol (IP) routing lookups as a packet is transmitted along the LSP. In one implementation, a packet having a predetermined value (which may be inserted by an upstream network device) is received at a network device after travelling along a first segment of an LSP. In response to identifying the predetermined label value of the packet, the network device may perform an IP routing lookup using IP routing information included in the packet to identify a next hop for the packet. The network device may then update a label of the packet such that the packet is routed along a second segment of the LSP and transmit the communication packet to the next hop.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2021Publication date: March 31, 2022Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventor: Eric Osborne
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Patent number: 11290354Abstract: A dynamic provisioning system includes a computer-executed portal that controls a router to, when a request message is received over a broadcast virtual local area network (VLAN), control the router to establish a dedicated VLAN between the customer communication device and the portal over a dedicated VLAN. The dedicated connection directing communication traffic from the customer computing device to the portal while inhibiting other communication traffic from the customer computing device. The portal also generates a user interface at the customer computing device using the dedicated connection in which the user interface to receive unique identifying information from the customer computing device.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2020Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: Michael Nyhus, James M. Adkins, III
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Patent number: 11290529Abstract: A computer-implemented method in a content delivery network (CDN) having multiple delivery servers. The CDN delivers content on behalf of at least one content provider. Distinct delivery servers are logically grouped into delivery server groups. One or more CDN name servers are associated with some of the delivery server groups. Network map data are determined using network data determined by the CDN name servers associated with at least some of the deliver server groups. The network data with respect to a CDN name server relative to a resolver is based on an estimated popularity of that CDN name server for that resolver. Responsive to a client request, including a hostname associated with a content provider, at least one CDN name server determines, using network map data, at least one delivery server to process the client request.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2020Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventor: Christopher Newton
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Publication number: 20220094661Abstract: The present application describes a system and method for passively collecting DNS traffic data as that data is passed between a recursive DNS resolver and an authoritative DNS server. The information contained in the collected DNS traffic data is used to generate a virtual authoritative DNS server, or a zone associated with the authoritative DNS server, when it is determined that the authoritative DNS server has been compromised.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2021Publication date: March 24, 2022Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: John R. WOODWORTH, Dean BALLEW, Mark DEHUS
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Publication number: 20220094606Abstract: Examples of the present disclosure relate to an AI-supported CDN. In examples, a data processing engine processes log data of a CDN node according to a model to identify an issue. An issue indication is provided to a solution generation engine, which generates a set of solutions to automatically resolve the issue. The set of solutions is provided to a solution implementation engine, which iteratively implements solutions to resolve the issue using solution implementation information associated with a given solution. Thus, the data processing engine need not have knowledge regarding the specific hardware and/or software used within the CDN. Similarly, the solution generation engine need not have knowledge of the structure of the CDN and/or configuration of devices associated with the identified issue, such that the solution implementation engine provides a layer of abstraction between a solution and the implementation-specific details used to implement the solution within the CDN.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2021Publication date: March 24, 2022Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: Steven M. Casey, William R. Henning, Stephen Opferman, Todd A. Borchert, Rahul Chowdhury
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Patent number: 11283706Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 12, 2020Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: Eric Osborne, Brent W. Smith
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Patent number: 11283678Abstract: Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods relating to adaptive virtual services. In an example, a user specifies a device configuration for a platform device. As a result, a service provider installs selected virtual-network functions and defines network connections as specified by the device configuration. Management software may also be installed, thereby enabling the service provider to communicate with and remotely manage the platform device. The installed virtual-network functions are activated on the platform device once it is delivered to the user. In some instances, the user changes the device configuration. For example, the user may install new virtual-network functions, reconfigure or remove existing virtual-network functions, or change defined network connections. As a result, the service provider reconfigures the platform device accordingly. Thus, the user need not purchase new specialized hardware in order to change the available functions of the computer network.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2020Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: Adam Saenger, Matthew Holway, Len Brannen, Gene Clark, Anil Simlot, Zubin Ingah, Johan J. Shane, Michael Gibson, Cory Sawyer, Rich Cerami, Kurt Deshazer
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Patent number: 11284215Abstract: Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems and methods for correlating one or more service areas of a network with one or more geolocation coordinates to determine available services for customers to the network. A service polygon may be generated that define an area in which a particular service offered by a communications network is available. The boundaries of the service polygons may be adjusted based on information corresponding to physical features of the initial area. The service polygons may aid a communications network in providing a list of available services to potential customers or devices connected to the network by determining one or more geolocation coordinate values of a potential connection site and comparing the values to the service polygons. A network management system may determine the available services, current or in the future, to offer such services to a customer to the network.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2020Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: Shawn Draper, Vamsi Kaza, Jerry Matthews, William Gray
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Patent number: 11283523Abstract: Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems and methods for an optical domain controller for managing and maintaining a record of network component configuration and interconnections. The optical domain controller detects changes in a configuration of optical network elements in response to a requested service from the network, coordinates additional changes in configurations to optical network elements that may be affected by the detected change, communicates with the optical network elements to incorporate the changes to the configurations of the network element, and stores the configurations and states of the network elements. The use of the optical domain controller may thus replace or supplement a database storing network configuration information by automatically managing changes to the network as new services are instantiated directly on the optical network elements.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2021Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: William Feight, Tara Joseph-Labrie, James M. Adkins, III, Clyde David Cooper, III
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Patent number: 11283667Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, computer program products, and the like, for implementing a registrar component or functionality in a telecommunications network. In one implementation, the registrar functionality is handled at a Session Border Controller (SBC) or Network Address Translation (NAT) Traversal Manager (NTM) device of the network to alleviate an application server of the network from performing the registration function.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2020Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventor: Richard Dean Terpstra