Centurylink Intellectual Property LLC

Qwest Communications International Inc.

Other

U S West, Inc.

Tivo Corporation

Adeia Media Holdings LLC

Charles Ivan Cook

Kevin Michael McBride

Michael K Bugenhagen

Steven M Casey

Gilman R Stevens

Angus O Dougherty

Michael J Fargano

Guy M Wells

Donald L Hohnstein

Thomas Schwengler

William R Walker

Matthew J Post

Lance LaBauve

Robert J Morrill

Andrew V Cook

Bruce A Phillips

Michael D Sprenger

Phil Carpenter

Donald L Brodigan

Kurt A Campbell

John T Pugaczewski

James R Corliss

Brian L Arend

Paul A Keator

William O'Brien, Jr

Gnanasegeran Selvadurai

John McManus

Dennis C Smith

Thomas Cho

Alfredo E Gonzalez

Felipe Castro

Vladan M Jevremovic

Thomas P Doherty

Steve Goeringer

Thomas Charles Barnett, Jr

Ronnie S Dhaliwal

Patrick L Perini

Don Gillespie

Scott C Bundy

David G Robinson

Qi Wang

Douglas Allen Malmstrom

James M Feger

Gary R Duffy

Blake Russo

F Warren Leblanc

Giuliana Pritchard

Novel tools and techniques might provide for implementing application, service, and/or content access control. Based at least in part on a consumer's choice of applications, services, content, and/or content providers-particular in exchange for a subsidy on content and/or network access fees provided to the consumer by chosen content providers-, a computing system may determine whether access to applications, services, and/or content not associated with the chosen content providers ('other content') should be allowed or restricted. If restricted, the computing system might utilize various network access techniques and/or technologies to block the consumer's access to the other content, to allow access to the other content on a charge per access basis, or to allow access to the other content at reduced network access speeds. In some embodiments, an access provider (e.g., an Internet service provider, etc.) might perform both determination and implementation of content access and restriction.

Consumer choice for broadband application and content services

Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing network experience shifting, and, in particular embodiments, using either a roaming or portable hypervisor associated with a user or a local hypervisor unassociated with the user. In some embodiments, a network node in a first network might receive, via a first network access device in a second network, a request from a user device to establish roaming network access, and might authenticate a user associated with the user device, the user being unassociated with the first network access device. Based on a determination that the user is authorized to access data, content, profiles, and/or software applications that are accessible via a second network access device, the network node might establish a secure private connection through a hypervisor or container communicatively coupled to the first network access device to provide the user with access to her data, content, profiles, and/or software applications.

System and method for implementing network experience shifting

A system for noise profile generation includes a customer gateway communicatively coupled to one or more end devices over a communication medium, at least one noise information node communicatively coupled to the customer gateway and programmed to extract noise information present on a communication path from the customer gateway to at least one of the one or more end devices, a noise profile database storing one or more noise profiles, and a noise profile generator. The noise profile generator includes at least one processor and non-transitory computer readable media having a set of instructions executable by the at least one processor to retrieve the extracted noise information associated with the communication path, determine whether the at least one noise characteristic of the extracted noise information matches with one or more noise profiles and identify at least one noise source on the communication path.

Automatic noise profile generation

Novel tools and techniques might provide for implementing application, service, and/or content access control. Based at least in part on a consumer's choice of applications, services, content, and/or content providers—particular in exchange for a subsidy on content and/or network access fees provided to the consumer by chosen content providers—, a computing system may determine whether access to applications, services, and/or content not associated with the chosen content providers ('other content') should be allowed or restricted. If restricted, the computing system might utilize various network access techniques and/or technologies to block the consumer's access to the other content, to allow access to the other content on a charge per access basis, or to allow access to the other content at reduced network access speeds. In some embodiments, an access provider (e.g., an Internet service provider, etc.) might perform both determination and implementation of content access and restriction.

Novel tools and techniques might provide for implementing extension of customer local area networks ('LANs') and/or implementing isolated service overlays over a network. In some embodiments, a network service point that is located external to a demarcation point at each of a plurality of customer premises might establish a connection between a service provider network and a customer LAN, which has already been established within a customer premises. The system subsequently extends the customer LAN, via this connection, to span between the network service point and the customer premises. Alternatively, or additionally, the system might establish two or more isolated service overlays across the customer LAN between the network service point and the customer premises, each of the two or more isolated service overlays having network traffic that is isolated from network traffic transmitted along another of the two or more isolated service overlays.

System and method for implementing extension of customer LAN at provider network service point

Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing network application programming interface ('API'), and, more particularly, API to provide network metrics and network resource control to users. In some embodiments, a computing system might receive customer network telemetry data from a first network via a gateway API, might receive service provider network telemetry data from a second network(s) via a network API, might compile the customer network telemetry data and the service provider network telemetry data, might receive a request from a user to access information regarding network services associated with the user, might filter the compiled customer network telemetry data and the compiled service provider network telemetry data to isolate first telemetry data and second telemetry data, respectively, might provide the user with access to at least one of the first telemetry data or the second telemetry data, and might provide the user with options to control network resources.

Application programming interface (API) to provide network metrics and network resource control to users

Novel tools and techniques might provide for implementing interconnection gateway and/or hub functionalities between two or more network functions virtualization ('NFV') entities that are located in different networks. In some embodiments, a NFV interconnection gateway ('NFVIG') might receive a set of network interconnection information from each of two or more sets of NFV entities, each set of NFV entities being located within a network separate from the networks in which the other sets of NFV entities are located. The NFVIG might be located in one of these networks. The NFVIG might abstract each set of network interconnection information, and might establish one or more links between the two or more sets of NFV entities, based at least in part on the abstracted sets of network interconnection information. The NFVIG might provide access to one or more virtualized network functions (&#x201c;VNFs&#x201d;) via the one or more links.

Network functions virtualization interconnection gateway

Novel tools and techniques might provide for implementing remote application access, and, in some cases, by instantiating an application or service close to the intended recipient or user of the application or service, from a networking perspective. A network might provide connectivity between a first computer and a second computer. A file (comprising an application and data) might be transmitted, over the network, from the first computer. A node in the network, which might be on a path between the first and second computers, might determine that the file contains the application and the data, and, based on such determination, might capture the file (before the second computer can receive it). An instance of the application might be instantiated on a compute surface in the network as a service for the second computer, such that the compute surface can operate on the data with the instance of the application.

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Charles Ivan Cook