US Patent Issued to Level 3 Communications on Sept. 29 for "Systems and methods for enhanced autonegotiation" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,316, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Level 3 Communications LLC (Denver).

"Systems and methods for enhanced autonegotiation" was invented by Steven E. Drake (Thornton, Colo.) and Charles R. Lyman (Longmont, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improved autonegotiation approach includes determining that a negotiated rate between a first network device and a second network device exceeds data transfer capacity over a network path downstream of the second network device. In response, a configuration message is generated and transmitted to the first network device. When received by the first network device, the configuration mess...