ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,980, issued on May 26, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Intelligent network" was invented by Yiu L. Lee (Philadelphia) and Ivan Ong (Malvern, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for providing services are disclosed. One aspect comprises determining a plurality of services to be provided over a first communication path to a destination, determining a select service of the plurality of services to be provided over a failover path to the destination, detecting a failure of the first communication path, and routing the select service over the failover path in response to the failure of t...