Patents Assigned to Level 3 Communications, LLC
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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: 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
  • 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: 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
  • 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: 20240113964
    Abstract: Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing name-based routing through networks. In various embodiments, a broker manager in each of a plurality of networks may receive a subscription request for a network device from a client device, each device being locally accessible or disposed in an upstream or downstream network. The broker manager uses its client broker to communicate with a locally accessible client device, and uses its mediator broker (and, sometimes, an intermediate device(s)) to communicate with a locally accessible network device. The broker manager otherwise uses its messaging brokers to communicate with control channels of one or more networks. Once subscription with the network device has been established, any commands and responses between the client device and the network device may be routed over pub/sub channels via the broker managers and their brokers using name-based routing, without routing based on IP address of the network device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: David Sutton, Steve Toms, Shelley Goldner, Shelli L. Hurd
  • Publication number: 20240112278
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to processing Bank Administration Institute (BAI) files. A method may include identifying, by at least one processor of an integration server, copies of BAI files indicative of payment information; importing, by the at least one processor, data from the BAI files into a staging table; parsing, by the at least one processor, the data in the staging table using a hierarchy defining a file level, a group level, an account level, and a transaction level to generate hierarchized data; normalizing, by the at least one processor, the hierarchized data into tables; and copying, by the at least one processor, differences between the hierarchized data and previous hierarchized data to a workflow associated with identifying payment amounts in the hierarchized data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Idilio MONCIVAIS-PINEDO
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20240113951
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Steve R. Wakumoto, Andrew S. Gerber, John D. Clouatre
  • Publication number: 20240106918
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Laurence R. Lipstone, William Crowder, Jeffrey G. Koller, David Fullagar, Maksim Yevmenkin, Christopher Newton
  • Patent number: 11943239
    Abstract: Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing fraud or distributed denial of service (“DDoS”) protection for session initiation protocol (“SIP”)-based communication. In various embodiments, a computing system may receive, from a first router, first SIP data indicating a request to initiate a SIP-based media communication session between a calling party at a source address and a called party at a destination address. The computing system may analyze the received first SIP data to determine whether the received first SIP data comprises any abnormalities indicative of potential fraudulent or malicious actions. If so, the computing system may reroute the first SIP data to a security deep packet inspection (“DPI”) engine, which may perform a deep scan of the received first SIP data to identify any known fraudulent or malicious attack vectors contained within the received first SIP data. If so, the security DPI engine may initiate mitigation actions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Adam Uzelac, Ronnie Bailey, Craig Richter
  • Publication number: 20240097977
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to consolidation of STP pairs without deploying new STP pairs and without making changes at a Service Switching Point to reflect the consolidation. In one aspect, a method includes identifying a first pair of signal transfer point devices to be decommissioned from a telecommunication network; identifying a second pair of signal transfer point devices to assume, in part, functionalities of the first pair of signal transfer point devices, each signal transfer point device of the first pair and the second pair having at least one primary point code and at least one secondary point code assigning a temporary secondary point code to each signal transfer point device of the first pair; and modifying at least one secondary point code of each signal transfer point device of the second pair with a primary point code of at least one signal transfer point device of the first pair.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Brad Smeal
  • Patent number: 11936550
    Abstract: A routing system can provide a Dynamic-Hybrid Forwarding Information Base (DHFIB). A control component of the routing system can build a routing table that includes routing information (e.g., prefixes, addresses, etc.) for use by a first routing component. The routing table can be ordered or ranked based on traffic information from the first routing component. Then, the control component can create the DHFIB from the routing table, wherein the DHFIB is a portion of the routing table and related to the first routing component. As such, the portion of the routing table selected for the DHFIB can be the set of prefixes in the routing table that represent the most frequently routed or most important prefixes in the routing table. Finally, the control component can forward the DHFIB to the first routing component to allow the routing component to route communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Stewart Bamford, Brent Wharton Smith, Noah Kipling Weis
  • Patent number: 11936804
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, computer program products for consolidating toll-free features of two or more telecommunications networks. In one implementation, the network services may be consolidated through utilization of an Enhanced Feature Server (EFS) or other type of application server deployed in a telecommunications network. The EFS may be configured to receive a toll-free communication and route the communication based on the dialed toll-free number and a carrier identification code (CIC) associated with the communication. Routing the communication based at least on the CIC associated with the communication allows the telecommunications network to consolidate (and ultimately remove) a redundant network or network components from the telecommunications network to improve the operation of the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: David A. Tschirhart, Ken Shomaker
  • Publication number: 20240089287
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, computer program products, and the like, for an orchestrator device associated with a scrubbing environment of a telecommunications network that receives one or more announced routing protocol advertisements from a customer device under an attack. In response to receiving the announcement, the orchestrator may configure one or more scrubbing devices of the network to begin providing the scrubbing service to packets matching the received routing announcement. A scrubbing service state for the customer may also be obtained or determined by the orchestrator. With the received route announcement and the customer profile and state information, the orchestrator may provide instructions to configure the scrubbing devices of the network based on the received information to dynamically automate scrubbing techniques without the need for a network administrator to manually configure the scrubbing environment or devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Todd J. Williamson, Brent W. Smith