Patents by Inventor Lawrence W. Gowin
Lawrence W. Gowin has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20240036970Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems and methods for improving the performance of a telecommunications network by monitoring the performance of one or more storage drives. Operational data is received from a plurality of storage drives of a storage server of a telecommunications network. A plurality of operational coefficients for each of the plurality of storage drives is derived based on the operational data, and a cluster plot is created from the plurality of operational coefficients for each of the plurality of storage drives. A distance is calculated between a subset of operational coefficients of the plurality of operational coefficients of the cluster plot, and a remedial action is initiated on a storage drive of the plurality of storage drives when a calculated distance of an operational coefficient associated with the storage drive exceeds a distance value from a cluster of the cluster plot.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2023Publication date: February 1, 2024Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: William Hopkins, Lawrence W. Gowin
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Patent number: 11789809Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems and methods for improving the performance of a telecommunications network by monitoring the performance of one or more storage drives. Operational data is received from a plurality of storage drives of a storage server of a telecommunications network. A plurality of operational coefficients for each of the plurality of storage drives is derived based on the operational data, and a cluster plot is created from the plurality of operational coefficients for each of the plurality of storage drives. A distance is calculated between a subset of operational coefficients of the plurality of operational coefficients of the cluster plot, and a remedial action is initiated on a storage drive of the plurality of storage drives when a calculated distance of an operational coefficient associated with the storage drive exceeds a distance value from a cluster of the cluster plot.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2022Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: William Hopkins, Lawrence W. Gowin
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Publication number: 20220276921Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems and methods for improving the performance of a telecommunications network by monitoring the performance of one or more storage drives. Operational data is received from a plurality of storage drives of a storage server of a telecommunications network. A plurality of operational coefficients for each of the plurality of storage drives is derived based on the operational data, and a cluster plot is created from the plurality of operational coefficients for each of the plurality of storage drives. A distance is calculated between a subset of operational coefficients of the plurality of operational coefficients of the cluster plot, and a remedial action is initiated on a storage drive of the plurality of storage drives when a calculated distance of an operational coefficient associated with the storage drive exceeds a distance value from a cluster of the cluster plot.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2022Publication date: September 1, 2022Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: William Hopkins, Lawrence W. Gowin
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Patent number: 11334424Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems and methods for improving the performance of a telecommunications network by monitoring the performance of one or more storage drives. Operational data is received from a plurality of storage drives of a storage server of a telecommunications network. A plurality of operational coefficients for each of the plurality of storage drives is derived based on the operational data, and a cluster plot is created from the plurality of operational coefficients for each of the plurality of storage drives. A distance is calculated between a subset of operational coefficients of the plurality of operational coefficients of the cluster plot, and a remedial action is initiated on a storage drive of the plurality of storage drives when a calculated distance of an operational coefficient associated with the storage drive exceeds a distance value from a cluster of the cluster plot.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2021Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: William Hopkins, Lawrence W. Gowin
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Publication number: 20210326199Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems and methods for improving the performance of a telecommunications network by monitoring the performance of one or more storage drives. Operational data is received from a plurality of storage drives of a storage server of a telecommunications network. A plurality of operational coefficients for each of the plurality of storage drives is derived based on the operational data, and a cluster plot is created from the plurality of operational coefficients for each of the plurality of storage drives. A distance is calculated between a subset of operational coefficients of the plurality of operational coefficients of the cluster plot, and a remedial action is initiated on a storage drive of the plurality of storage drives when a calculated distance of an operational coefficient associated with the storage drive exceeds a distance value from a cluster of the cluster plot.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2021Publication date: October 21, 2021Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: William Hopkins, Lawrence W. Gowin
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Patent number: 10949288Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems and methods for improving the performance of a telecommunications network by monitoring the performance of one or more storage drives. Operational data is received from a plurality of storage drives of a storage server of a telecommunications network. A plurality of operational coefficients for each of the plurality of storage drives is derived based on the operational data, and a cluster plot is created from the plurality of operational coefficients for each of the plurality of storage drives. A distance is calculated between a subset of operational coefficients of the plurality of operational coefficients of the cluster plot, and a remedial action is initiated on a storage drive of the plurality of storage drives when a calculated distance of an operational coefficient associated with the storage drive exceeds a distance value from a cluster of the cluster plot.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2020Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: William Hopkins, Lawrence W. Gowin
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Publication number: 20210011798Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems and methods for improving the performance of a telecommunications network by monitoring the performance of one or more storage drives. Operational data is received from a plurality of storage drives of a storage server of a telecommunications network. A plurality of operational coefficients for each of the plurality of storage drives is derived based on the operational data, and a cluster plot is created from the plurality of operational coefficients for each of the plurality of storage drives. A distance is calculated between a subset of operational coefficients of the plurality of operational coefficients of the cluster plot, and a remedial action is initiated on a storage drive of the plurality of storage drives when a calculated distance of an operational coefficient associated with the storage drive exceeds a distance value from a cluster of the cluster plot.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2020Publication date: January 14, 2021Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: William Hopkins, Lawrence W. Gowin
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Patent number: 10795757Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems and methods for improving the performance of a telecommunications network by monitoring the performance of one or more storage drives. Operational data is received from a plurality of storage drives of a storage server of a telecommunications network. A plurality of operational coefficients for each of the plurality of storage drives is derived based on the operational data, and a cluster plot is created from the plurality of operational coefficients for each of the plurality of storage drives. A distance is calculated between a subset of operational coefficients of the plurality of operational coefficients of the cluster plot, and a remedial action is initiated on a storage drive of the plurality of storage drives when a calculated distance of an operational coefficient associated with the storage drive exceeds a distance value from a cluster of the cluster plot.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2018Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: William Hopkins, Lawrence W. Gowin
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Patent number: 10536339Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for automatically configuring, managing, updating, and/or monitoring the configuration of various computing devices and/or network devices within a communications network, such as a telecommunications network. Basic input/output setting configurations for a network devices and/or cluster of network devices may be extracted from a template. Subsequently, a module may be identified and executed to configure the cluster based on configuration parameters defined within the template.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2016Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: Matthew D. Flynn, Lawrence W. Gowin, Ricky L. Nooner, Shane Trotter
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Publication number: 20190004892Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems and methods for improving the performance of a telecommunications network by monitoring the performance of one or more storage drives. Operational data is received from a plurality of storage drives of a storage server of a telecommunications network. A plurality of operational coefficients for each of the plurality of storage drives is derived based on the operational data, and a cluster plot is created from the plurality of operational coefficients for each of the plurality of storage drives. A distance is calculated between a subset of operational coefficients of the plurality of operational coefficients of the cluster plot, and a remedial action is initiated on a storage drive of the plurality of storage drives when a calculated distance of an operational coefficient associated with the storage drive exceeds a distance value from a cluster of the cluster plot.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2018Publication date: January 3, 2019Applicant: Level 3 Communicatons, LLCInventors: William Hopkins, Lawrence W. Gowin
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Publication number: 20170237619Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for automatically configuring, managing, updating, and/or monitoring the configuration of various computing devices and/or network devices within a communications network, such as a telecommunications network. Basic input/output setting configurations for a network devices and/or cluster of network devices may be extracted from a template. Subsequently, a module may be identified and executed to configure the cluster based on configuration parameters defined within the template.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2016Publication date: August 17, 2017Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: Matthew D. Flynn, Lawrence W. Gowin, Ricky L. Nooner, Shane Trotter
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Publication number: 20150215334Abstract: Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems and methods for generating threat intelligence based on network security data. In one implementation, a network traffic dataset representative of network traffic for an Internet Protocol address across one or more ports of a primary network is obtained. A content distribution network log associated with a content distribution network is obtained. The content distribution network log includes a history of content requests by the Internet Protocol address. The network traffic dataset is correlated with the content distribution network log based on the Internet Protocol address to obtain network security data. One or more threat attributes representative of malicious activity are identified from the network security data. The one or more threat attributes are weighted. Network threat intelligence is generated based on the weighted threat attributes using a processing cluster.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2015Publication date: July 30, 2015Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: Skyler J. Bingham, Mahendra K. Chandrakar, Lawrence W. Gowin, Ryan T. Korte