US Patent Issued to CenturyLink Intellectual Property on Jan. 27 for "Enhanced internet protocol security management for virtual private network concentrators" (Colorado, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,798, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC (Denver).

"Enhanced internet protocol security management for virtual private network concentrators" was invented by Asghar Hussain (McLean, Va.), Pavan Rampalli (Englewood, Colo.) and Zubin Ingah (Centennial, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to managing Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) for virtual private network (VPN) concentrators. A method may include: identifying, by an edge gateway backend system, a first IPsec tunnel, a second IPsec tunnel, and a third IPsec tunnel between a VPN cl...