US Patent Issued to Level 3 Communications on May 19 for "External injection of cloud based network functions into network services" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,365, issued on May 19, was assigned to Level 3 Communications LLC (Denver).

"External injection of cloud based network functions into network services" was invented by William Sella (Parker, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for providing an API description of an external network service and using the API to integrate the external service into a network. An embodiment operates by receiving, from a service provider, a description of an application programming interface (API), transmitting a call to the service provider using the API for creating a new inst...