US Patent Issued to Charter Communications Operating on March 11 for "Flexible nodal layer three overlay of layer two traffic" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,097, issued on March 11, was assigned to Charter Communications Operating LLC (St. Louis).

"Flexible nodal layer three overlay of layer two traffic" was invented by Timothy Bleidorn (Colorado Springs, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for flexible nodal layer 3 overlay of layer 2 traffic is described. A network includes an access device for receiving layer 2 traffic from user devices, a packet inspection device for inspecting the layer 2 traffic, and a layer 3 tunnel instantiation device for encapsulating the layer 2 traffic into layer 3 traffic. The layer 3 tunnel instantiation device provides a first tunnel ...