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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 22, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 25, 2013
Centurylink Intellectual Property Llc, Denver, CO (US);
Steven M. Casey, Littleton, CO (US);
Amie Elcan, Superior, CO (US);
John Butala, Shoreview, MN (US);
Felipe Castro, Erie, CO (US);
Bruce A. Phillips, Frederick, CO (US);
CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC, Denver, CO (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems are disclosed for providing parties with levels of transparency into filtering functionality of network traffic inspection implementations. Embodiments include receiving a filter change request from a subscriber over a network that defines a modification to a set of filter criteria for filtering network traffic, the filter criteria being stored in association with the subscriber in a filter criteria data store; updating the set of filter criteria in the filter criteria data store as a function of the filter change request; receiving a content dataset relating to the network traffic; identifying the content dataset as being associated with the subscriber; retrieving the set of filter criteria associated with the subscriber from the data store; and filtering the network traffic as a function of the set of filter criteria. Embodiments further provide layers of access for different entities to the filtered traffic.