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).

  • Publication number: 20240036970
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: William Hopkins, Lawrence W. Gowin
  • Patent number: 11789809
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: William Hopkins, Lawrence W. Gowin
  • Publication number: 20220276921
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: William Hopkins, Lawrence W. Gowin
  • Patent number: 11334424
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: William Hopkins, Lawrence W. Gowin
  • Publication number: 20210326199
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: William Hopkins, Lawrence W. Gowin
  • Patent number: 10949288
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: William Hopkins, Lawrence W. Gowin
  • Publication number: 20210011798
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: William Hopkins, Lawrence W. Gowin
  • Patent number: 10795757
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: William Hopkins, Lawrence W. Gowin
  • Patent number: 10536339
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Matthew D. Flynn, Lawrence W. Gowin, Ricky L. Nooner, Shane Trotter
  • Publication number: 20190004892
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Applicant: Level 3 Communicatons, LLC
    Inventors: William Hopkins, Lawrence W. Gowin
  • Publication number: 20170237619
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2016
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Matthew D. Flynn, Lawrence W. Gowin, Ricky L. Nooner, Shane Trotter
  • Publication number: 20150215334
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2015
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Skyler J. Bingham, Mahendra K. Chandrakar, Lawrence W. Gowin, Ryan T. Korte