Centurylink Intellectual Property LLC

Embarq Holdings Company, LLC

Sprint Communications Comapny L.p.

Eos Defense Systems Usa, Inc.

Embarq Corporation

Michael K Bugenhagen

William Lyle Wiley

Robert J Morrill

Charles Ivan Cook

Stephen K Edwards

Kevin Michael McBride

John M Heinz

James Lloyd McNaughton

Carl Milton Coppage

Andrew V Cook

Amar Nath Ray

Cadathur V Chakravarthy

Matthew Carl Schlesener

Steven E Kozisek

William R Walker

Gregory A Wolfe

Michael J Fargano

Matthew J Post

Robert B Dianda

Sunil Praful Shah

Aniruddha R Karmarkar

Jack E Brown

Ranjit Vadlamudi

Greg Wolfe

Michael A Stevens

Jim E Cooley

Mark B Saxelby

Abelino C Valdez

Kevin G Jones

Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing customer resource telemetry and use as a service. In various embodiments, a computing system might receive, from a user, a request to access at least one network-accessible resource associated with a customer of a service provider, the user being unassociated and unrelated with the customer; might identify at least one of a user identification, a company, or a class of user associated with the user; might determine whether at least one resource record associated with the customer indicates that the user has permission to access the at least one network-accessible resource, based on the identification. If so, the computing system might provide the user with access to the at least one network-accessible resource associated with the customer. If not, the computing system might deny, to the user, access to the at least one network-accessible resource associated with the customer.

Method and system for implementing customer resource use as a service

Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing routing of network traffic across one or more network nodes or utilization of the one or more network nodes based on one or more demand classifications and/or based on detection of a trigger event associated with the one or more demand classifications. In some embodiment, a computing system might monitor network traffic across one or more network nodes or utilization of the one or more network nodes, the network traffic being routed based on a first demand classification. The computing system might determine whether at least one trigger event associated with a second demand classification has occurred. If so, the computing system might adjust the routing of the network traffic across the one or more network nodes or adjust the utilization of the one or more network nodes, based at least in part on the second demand classification.

Method, apparatus, and system for adjusting routing of network traffic or utilization of network nodes

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 in a telecommunication network are provided for implementing a data link layer control plane that may comply with the Ethernet standard and with sub-millisecond transmission control capabilities across multiple dis-similar technologies and bandwidth links. The framework provides a dynamic modular traffic control function insertion, removal, mapping function by having interpreter functions in the protocol agents that can map states and commands to sub-service chain functions that are configured per path and quality of service (QoS) flows. The control protocol provides high levels of resiliency and reliability by having a replicating function that transmits the same control protocol frames across multiple links simultaneously. The agents are multi-chassis capable and support hitless service impacts for administrative changes. Control plane messages may be encoded as a data plane frame and be transmitted at a high rate using the data plane.

Hybrid control plane data link agent and protocol

Novel tools and techniques might provide for implementing customer-based Internet of Things ('IoT')&#x2014;transparent privacy functionality. Various methods, systems, and apparatuses might provide connectivity between a network interface device ('NID') and each of one or more first user devices of a plurality of user devices associated with the customer premises and/or a user who is associated with the customer premises. In some cases, at least one virtual network function (&#x201c;VNF&#x201d;) might be sent to each of the one or more first user devices. The NID might restrict, in some cases using the VNF, access by a third party to the information regarding the at least one portion of the at least one of one or more first user devices connected to the network or one or more applications running on one or more first user devices connected to the network.

Customer based internet of things (IoT)&#x2014;transparent privacy functionality

Novel tools and techniques might provide for implementing applications management, based at least in part on operations, administration, and management ('OAM') information. A host computing system might comprise a dedicated OAM management agent. While normal application frame flow might be sent or received by VMs running on the host computing system, OAM frame flow might be sent or received by the OAM management agent, which might also serve as an OAM frame generator. Alternatively, or additionally, based on a determination that at least one OAM frame has changed (in response to a change in address of far-end and/or near-end OAM server functions), the OAM management agent might update a list associating the at least one OAM frame that has changed with corresponding at least one VM of the one or more VMs, without restarting any of the at least one VM, the OAM management agent, and/or the host computing system.

Multi-line/multi-state virtualized OAM transponder

System and method for implementing isolated service overlays between provider network service point and customer premises

Novel tools and techniques might provide for implementing virtual platform media access control ('MAC') address-based layer 2 and layer 3 network switching. In some embodiments, a method might comprise receiving, at a network node in a network, a data packet having a header comprising a MAC destination address, and routing, with the network node, the data packet over open systems interconnection ('OSI') model layer 3 or network layer of the network, based at least in part on the MAC destination address in the header of the data packet. The MAC destination address comprises a first portion comprising an organizationally unique identifier (&#x201c;OUI&#x201d;) and a second portion comprising an identifier for a destination network interface controller (&#x201c;NIC&#x201d;) and/or virtual NIC (&#x201c;VNIC&#x201d;), which might be associated either with the same service provider associated with the network node or the network or with a different service provider, content provider, and/or application provider.

System and method for implementing virtual platform media access control (MAC) address-based layer 3 network switching

Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing network application programming interface ('API'), and, more particularly, implementing dual network telemetry API framework. In some embodiments, a computing system might receive first network telemetry data from a first network via a gateway API, might receive second network telemetry data from one or more second networks via a network API, and might analyze the first network telemetry data and the second network telemetry data to determine first instructions to send to the first network and to determine second instructions to send to the one or more second networks. The computing system might send the first instructions to first nodes in the first network to cause the first nodes to perform at least one first action and send the second instructions to each second network to cause the second nodes in each second networks to perform at least one second action.

Method and system for implementing dual network telemetry application programming interface (API) framework

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Michael K Bugenhagen