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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 23, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 23, 2015
Centurylink Intellectual Property Llc, Denver, CO (US);
James L. McNaughton, Lenexa, KS (US);
John M. Heinz, Olathe, KS (US);
Michael K. Bugenhagen, Overland Park, KS (US);
William L. Wiley, Overland Park, KS (US);
CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC, Denver, CO (US);
Abstract
A system and method for controlling communications networks. Network performance information is gathered from a first communications network using performance information packet data packets. A network operator of the first communications network is controlled from a secondary communications network using the performance information packet data packets. Changes to the network operator are implemented based on instructions included in the performance information packet data packets.