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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.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 03, 2025

Filed:

Apr. 26, 2024
Applicant:

Centurylink Intellectual Property Llc, Denver, CO (US);

Inventors:

Dean Ballew, Sterling, VA (US);

John R. B. Woodworth, Amissville, VA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/12 (2022.01); H04L 45/16 (2022.01); H04L 45/74 (2022.01); H04L 67/1021 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/12 (2013.01); H04L 45/16 (2013.01); H04L 45/74 (2013.01); H04L 67/1021 (2013.01);
Abstract

In examples, a first Anycast advertisement is received from a first server identifying the first server as a primary address for a service. In addition, a second Anycast advertisement is received from the first server identifying the first server as a secondary address for the service. Further, a third Anycast advertisement is received from a second server identifying the second server as the secondary address for the service. A first community advertisement is also from the first server identifying the first server as a member of a first community. Thereafter, a first request is received from a client including the primary address, and the request is routed to the first server. When a second request from the client is received including the secondary address, based at least on the community advertisement, the first server is ignored, and the second request is routed to the second server.


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