US Patent Issued to Level 3 Communications on July 28 for "Real-time fault management (RFM)" (Colorado, Florida, Louisiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,925, issued on July 28, was assigned to Level 3 Communications LLC (Denver).

"Real-time fault management (RFM)" was invented by Steve Toms (Middleburg, Fla.), Michael McClintock (Louisville, Colo.), David Sutton (Monroe, La.), Steven Burrell (Westminster, Colo.), Shelley Goldner (Superior, Colo.) and Shelli L Hurd (Arvada, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing real-time fault management or real-time fault management system ("RFM"). In various embodiments, RFM may receive alerts from or associated with network devices (e.g., layer 2, 3, and/or 4 devices, or the like) that are dis...