Patents by Inventor William R. Benassi
William R. Benassi 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: 20230394059Abstract: Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing off-chain functionality for data contained in blocks of blockchain. In various embodiments, a computing system might assemble data extracted from each block of a first block(s) of a first instance of a blockchain in a generated first file(s), the assembled data being organized to mirror how the data is organized and stored in the first block(s); might store, in a secure database, the first file(s), the first file(s) being configured to be content-searchable, content-sortable, and/or content-filterable; might generate a second instance of the blockchain, which contains one or more second blocks, the one or more second blocks each containing the hash value of each corresponding first block(s), without containing the data contained in each block of the first block(s); and might store, in a distributed peer data storage system of the blockchain system, the generated second instance of the blockchain.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2023Publication date: December 7, 2023Applicant: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLCInventors: Stephen Opferman, William R. Benassi, James P. Gately
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Patent number: 11734296Abstract: Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing off-chain functionality for data contained in blocks of blockchain. In various embodiments, a computing system might assemble data extracted from each block of a first block(s) of a first instance of a blockchain in a generated first file(s), the assembled data being organized to mirror how the data is organized and stored in the first block(s); might store, in a secure database, the first file(s), the first file(s) being configured to be content-searchable, content-sortable, and/or content-filterable; might generate a second instance of the blockchain, which contains one or more second blocks, the one or more second blocks each containing the hash value of each corresponding first block(s), without containing the data contained in each block of the first block(s); and might store, in a distributed peer data storage system of the blockchain system, the generated second instance of the blockchain.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2022Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLCInventors: Stephen Opferman, William R. Benassi, James P. Gately
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Publication number: 20230221928Abstract: Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing object-oriented infrastructure-as-code platform (“OOIACP”) and its functionalities. In various embodiments, an OOIACP may receive a request to perform a function from a requesting device. The OOIACP includes a declarative configuration language (“DCL”)-based infrastructure-as-code (“IAC”) software tool that provides structure and data functionalities and a wrapper tool that provides algorithm and sequence functionalities to the IAC software tool to convert the IAC software tool into an object-oriented programming (“OOP”)-based IAC system. The OOIACP uses a run command to perform the requested function, by identifying classes within a class hierarchy associated with the requested function, and initiating a set of procedures in each identified class. Each class and subclass within the class hierarchy has one or more predefined class behaviors, and each subclass inherits class behaviors of classes to which it belongs and of any intermediate subclasses.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2023Publication date: July 13, 2023Applicant: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLCInventor: William R. Benassi
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Publication number: 20230153076Abstract: Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing object-oriented infrastructure-as-code platform (“OOIACP”) and its functionalities. In various embodiments, when a request to process one or more lifecycle events is received, a computing system may perform: selecting and scaling across a plurality of OOIACP instances; and causing the selected plurality of OOIACP instances to process the one or more lifecycle events. In some cases, each OOIACP instance may include an infrastructure-as-code (“IAC”) command line that instantiates component infrastructure among a plurality of component infrastructure to process at least one lifecycle event among the one or more lifecycle events concurrently and independently of other OOIACP instances. In some instances, the first plurality of OOIACP instances may be located within an environment in which the plurality of component infrastructure is located.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2023Publication date: May 18, 2023Applicant: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLCInventor: William R. Benassi
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Patent number: 11593073Abstract: Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing object-oriented infrastructure-as-code platform (“OOIACP”) and its functionalities. In various embodiments, an OOIACP may receive a request to perform a function from a requesting device. The OOIACP includes a declarative configuration language (“DCL”)-based infrastructure-as-code (“IAC”) software tool that provides structure and data functionalities and a wrapper tool that provides algorithm and sequence functionalities to the IAC software tool to convert the IAC software tool into an object-oriented programming (“OOP”)-based IAC system. The OOIACP uses a run command to perform the requested function, by identifying classes within a class hierarchy associated with the requested function, and initiating a set of procedures in each identified class. Each class and subclass within the class hierarchy has one or more predefined class behaviors, and each subclass inherits class behaviors of classes to which it belongs and of any intermediate subclasses.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2021Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLCInventor: William R. Benassi
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Publication number: 20220245166Abstract: Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing off-chain functionality for data contained in blocks of blockchain. In various embodiments, a computing system might assemble data extracted from each block of a first block(s) of a first instance of a blockchain in a generated first file(s), the assembled data being organized to mirror how the data is organized and stored in the first block(s); might store, in a secure database, the first file(s), the first file(s) being configured to be content-searchable, content-sortable, and/or content-filterable; might generate a second instance of the blockchain, which contains one or more second blocks, the one or more second blocks each containing the hash value of each corresponding first block(s), without containing the data contained in each block of the first block(s); and might store, in a distributed peer data storage system of the blockchain system, the generated second instance of the blockchain.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2022Publication date: August 4, 2022Applicant: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLCInventors: Stephen Opferman, William R. Benassi, James P. Gately
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Publication number: 20220229637Abstract: Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing object-oriented infrastructure-as-code platform (“OOIACP”) and its functionalities. In various embodiments, an OOIACP may receive a request to perform a function from a requesting device. The OOIACP includes a declarative configuration language (“DCL”)-based infrastructure-as-code (“IAC”) software tool that provides structure and data functionalities and a wrapper tool that provides algorithm and sequence functionalities to the IAC software tool to convert the IAC software tool into an object-oriented programming (“OOP”)-based IAC system. The OOIACP uses a run command to perform the requested function, by identifying classes within a class hierarchy associated with the requested function, and initiating a set of procedures in each identified class. Each class and subclass within the class hierarchy has one or more predefined class behaviors, and each subclass inherits class behaviors of classes to which it belongs and of any intermediate subclasses.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2021Publication date: July 21, 2022Inventor: William R. Benassi
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Publication number: 20220210034Abstract: Systems and methods for metrics capture and use in a computing network are provided. In examples, systems and methods are provided to permit network elements (such as network devices and workloads) to be instrumented for metrics collection as part of the process of provisioning the network element on the network. In examples, a collection template is provided to a customer that can be used to generate a collection component for collecting metrics associated with the network element. In examples, the collected metrics can be stored and used by an edge recommendation system to determine one or more recommended edge sites at which the network element should be placed according to optimization criteria.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2021Publication date: June 30, 2022Applicant: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLCInventors: William R. Benassi, William O'Brien
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Patent number: 11314763Abstract: Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing off-chain functionality for data contained in blocks of blockchain. In various embodiments, a computing system might assemble data extracted from each block of a first block(s) of a first instance of a blockchain in a generated first file(s), the assembled data being organized to mirror how the data is organized and stored in the first block(s); might store, in a secure database, the first file(s), the first file(s) being configured to be content-searchable, content-sortable, and/or content-filterable; might generate a second instance of the blockchain, which contains one or more second blocks, the one or more second blocks each containing the hash value of each corresponding first block(s), without containing the data contained in each block of the first block(s); and might store, in a distributed peer data storage system of the blockchain system, the generated second instance of the blockchain.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2020Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLCInventors: Stephen Opferman, William R. Benassi, James P. Gately
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Publication number: 20200311094Abstract: Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing off-chain functionality for data contained in blocks of blockchain. In various embodiments, a computing system might assemble data extracted from each block of a first block(s) of a first instance of a blockchain in a generated first file(s), the assembled data being organized to mirror how the data is organized and stored in the first block(s); might store, in a secure database, the first file(s), the first file(s) being configured to be content-searchable, content-sortable, and/or content-filterable; might generate a second instance of the blockchain, which contains one or more second blocks, the one or more second blocks each containing the hash value of each corresponding first block(s), without containing the data contained in each block of the first block(s); and might store, in a distributed peer data storage system of the blockchain system, the generated second instance of the blockchain.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2020Publication date: October 1, 2020Inventors: Stephen Opferman, William R. Benassi, James P. Gately