US Patent Issued to CenturyLink Intellectual Property on Aug. 5 for "Enhanced pre-loading for edge gateways in communications networks" (Colorado, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,785, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC (Denver).

"Enhanced pre-loading for edge gateways in communications networks" was invented by Austin Moaleji (Irvine, Calif.) and Pavan Rampalli (Centennial, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to staging a universal customer edge gateway device. A universal customer edge gateway device may generate, prior to deployment of the universal customer edge gateway device at a customer location, copies of virtual network function (VNF) operating system (OS) images on the universal customer edge gateway...