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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 18, 2019
Filed:
May. 25, 2017
Applicant:
Level 3 Communications, Llc, Broomfield, CO (US);
Inventor:
William Sella, Parker, CO (US);
Assignee:
Level 3 Communications, LLC, Broomfield, CO (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 12/801 (2013.01); H04L 12/851 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/1095 (2013.01); H04L 29/08144 (2013.01); H04L 47/24 (2013.01); H04L 47/33 (2013.01); H04L 67/20 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for providing an API description of an external network service and using the API to integrate the external service into a network. An embodiment operates by receiving, from a service provider, a description of an application programming interface (API), transmitting a call to the service provider using the API for creating a new instance of a service and transmitting to the service provider a traffic flow upon which the service will be applied.