Patents Examined by Michael Their
  • System and method for routing communications between packet networks based on real time pricing
    Patent number: 8488495
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments include a method for communicating data packets over packet networks owned by different communications carriers. The method includes monitoring, throughout scheduled times of the day, pricing information of the different communications carriers for communicating the data packets over the packet networks owned by the different communications carriers. The method determines over which of the packet networks owned by the different communications carriers to communicate data packets based on the pricing information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
    Inventors: Michael K. Bugenhagen, Robert J. Morrill