Patents by Inventor Orville J. Hobbs

Orville J. Hobbs 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: 20200106662
    Abstract: Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems and methods systems and methods for managing network health, including optimizing a network. In one implementation, an alarm list for a subnetwork of a telecommunications network is obtained. The alarm list has alarm data captured from a plurality of network elements forming the subnetwork. Network data associated with a subset of the network elements is captured by traversing a circuit path in the subnetwork from a source to a destination. The subset of network elements disposed is along the circuit path. The alarm list is correlated with the network data to identify a related network issue. A root cause of the related network issue is determined. One or more recommendations for resolving the root cause of the related network issue are generated, and at least one of the recommendations is deployed in the subnetwork.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Orville J. Hobbs, Charles A. Lockwood, Scott C. Mellecker
  • Patent number: 10498588
    Abstract: Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems and methods systems and methods for managing network health, including optimizing a network. In one implementation, an alarm list for a subnetwork of a telecommunications network is obtained. The alarm list has alarm data captured from a plurality of network elements forming the subnetwork. Network data associated with a subset of the network elements is captured by traversing a circuit path in the subnetwork from a source to a destination. The subset of network elements disposed is along the circuit path. The alarm list is correlated with the network data to identify a related network issue. A root cause of the related network issue is determined. One or more recommendations for resolving the root cause of the related network issue are generated, and at least one of the recommendations is deployed in the subnetwork.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Orville J. Hobbs, Charles A. Lockwood, Scott C. Mellecker
  • Patent number: 10432451
    Abstract: Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems and methods systems and methods for managing network health, including alarm reduction in a subnetwork. In one implementation, an alarm list is received. The alarm list has alarm data captured from a plurality of remote nodes and consolidated at an aggregator node. A first alarm corresponding to an optical interface deployed in a circuit of a telecommunications subnetwork is identified from the alarm list. A topology associated with the optical interface is discovered by traversing a path of the circuit. An interface list is generated based on the topology. One or more alarms related to a root cause of the first alarm are identified based on a comparison of the interface list to the alarm list. The related alarms are correlated to the first alarm for concurrent resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Orville J. Hobbs, Charles A. Lockwood, Scott C. Mellecker
  • Publication number: 20170048099
    Abstract: Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems and methods systems and methods for managing network health, including alarm reduction in a subnetwork. In one implementation, an alarm list is received. The alarm list has alarm data captured from a plurality of remote nodes and consolidated at an aggregator node. A first alarm corresponding to an optical interface deployed in a circuit of a telecommunications subnetwork is identified from the alarm list. A topology associated with the optical interface is discovered by traversing a path of the circuit. An interface list is generated based on the topology. One or more alarms related to a root cause of the first alarm are identified based on a comparison of the interface list to the alarm list. The related alarms are correlated to the first alarm for concurrent resolution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2015
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Orville J. Hobbs, Charles A. Lockwood, Scott C. Mellecker
  • Publication number: 20170048121
    Abstract: Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems and methods systems and methods for managing network health, including optimizing a network. In one implementation, an alarm list for a subnetwork of a telecommunucations network is obtained. The alarm list has alarm data captured from a plurality of network elements forming the subnetwork. Network data associated with a subset of the network elements is captured by traversing a circuit path in the subnetwork from a source to a destination. The subset of network elements disposed is along the circuit path. The alarm list is correlated with the network data to identify a related network issue. A root cause of the related network issue is determined. One or more recommendations for resolving the root cause of the related network issue are generated, and at least one of the recommendations is deployed in the subnetwork.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2015
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Orville J. Hobbs, Charles A. Lockwood, Scott C. Mellecker