US Patent Issued to CenturyLink Intellectual Property on July 15 for "Customer identification system and method using shared trunk group" (Louisiana Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,228, issued on July 15, was assigned to CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC (Denver).

"Customer identification system and method using shared trunk group" was invented by Joseph Scivicque (Lafayette, La.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided to provision a customer-specific identifier in cloud-based communications systems so that when a communication arrives at the network services provider, it is identified as being associated with the customer, even when the customer information would otherwise not be available. In examples, when a customer orders communication services from the network services provider...