Charter Communications Operating, LLC

Thomas Holloran

Mark Teflian

Matthew Petersen

John J Brophy

David G Feldman

Methods and systems for Internet Protocol (IP) address allocation optimization. A method includes a data collector collecting IP address information from sources of IP address inventory and an optimization controller generating a data set from the collected IP address information, minimizing IP address allocations for network components in a network using IP address allocation and IP address utilization for a network component from the data set, minimizing IP address inventory costs using IP address inventory and IP address utilization from the data set and IP address transactional costs, tracking the IP address inventory, sending configuration information to network component(s) to change respective IP address allocations based on minimized IP address allocation, sending transaction information to IP address provider(s) to change the IP address inventory based on minimized IP address inventory costs, and performing the above on a defined interval.

Method and system for internet protocol address allocation

Computer processor hardware receives data associated with a set of elements in a network. The computer processor hardware assigns a unique identifier value to each respective element in the network. To produce encoded information representative of the network, the computer processor hardware chooses an attribute list indicating different attributes pertinent to the set of elements. For each unique identifier value indicating a corresponding network element, the computer processor hardware utilizes the received data to produce a corresponding set of encoded information indicating settings for the attributes in the list. The computer processor hardware produces a set of encoded information for each of the unique identifier values (and corresponding network elements) into an analytics data set defining the network. The analytics data set indicates all relationships amongst the network elements allowing complete end-to-end network architectures to be evaluated or focus to be placed on specific sub-segments of the network in order to evaluate processes and function at a micro level. It also allows associating costs to delivery service levels, to timing of deployment, or any wide variety of analysis dependent on the combined operation of network components.

Universal alias and dependency models and network analysis

Systems, methods, architectures, mechanisms or apparatus for allocating a group of content channels among a plurality of slots of a radio frequency (RF) signal in a manner minimizing the number of slots necessary to support the content channels and number of movements of content channels between slots.

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Parker, CO, United States of America

Thomas Holloran