US Patent Issued to CenturyLink Intellectual Property on Nov. 3 for "Systems and methods for device upgrades using version controlled beacon" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,061, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC (Denver).

"Systems and methods for device upgrades using version controlled beacon" was invented by Dean Ballew (Sterling, Va.) and John R.B. Woodworth (Amissville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for upgrading one or more managed devices in a network includes receiving, by a managed device, a device configuration update comprising an identifier for a beacon service. The method also includes causing a backup file for the first managed device to be generated and stored and updating the first managed device using the device configuration update. The...