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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 27, 2023
Level 3 Communications, Llc, Broomfield, CO (US);
Peter Brecl, Highlands Ranch, CO (US);
Level 3 Communications, LLC, Denver, CO (US);
Abstract
An automatic provisioning and configuration system for threat mitigation may be provided. Hardware and software resources may be automatically configured to designate a return path for forwarding clean data packets to a target network. A return path from a scrubbing center to the target network may be selected and configured, for example, based on the geographic location of the scrubbing center and information regarding available capacity of the return path to the target network, among other information. The system may also perform a set of dynamic checks to determine whether one or more scrubbing centers have capacity (and/or are likely to continue to have capacity) to provide an encapsulation tunnel between the scrubbing center and the target network for clean return traffic.