US Patent Issued to CenturyLink Intellectual Property on Oct. 20 for "Systems and methods for predicting outcome of network configuration changes" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,619, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC (Denver).

"Systems and methods for predicting outcome of network configuration changes" was invented by John R.B. Woodworth (Amissville, Va.) and Dean Ballew (Sterling, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In large networks, configuration changes made to the network may have effects the extent of which is not easily foreseen before the configuration change is implemented. For example, the deployment of a new filter to the routers of a network may have the effect of disconnecting a larger portion of the network than was expected, and the recognition and correc...