US Patent Issued to CenturyLink Intellectual Property on Aug. 5 for "Systems and methods for cloaking routes" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,810, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC (Denver).

"Systems and methods for cloaking routes" was invented by Dean Ballew (Sterling, Va.) and John R. B. Woodworth (Amissville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a network system, network switching devices such as routers may store routes to various networks. The system may on occasion be reconfigured, e.g., as new network switching devices are brought on line, or as servers are moved to new locations. Such reconfiguring may involve the storing of new routes in a network switching device, or the deletion of routes stored in a network switching devic...