US Patent Issued to Level 3 Communications on Aug. 12 for "Efficient provisioning of internet circuit and secure domain name system" (Colorado, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,786, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Level 3 Communications LLC (Denver).

"Efficient provisioning of internet circuit and secure domain name system" was invented by Peter Brecl (Highlands Ranch, Colo.) and David Sanford (Clayton, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application describes systems and methods for automatically provisioning a domain name system (DNS) firewall service for an Internet circuit. In examples, customer premises equipment and a DNS firewall system are automatically configured to work with the Internet circuit without requiring technical knowledge or intervention by a customer."

The patent was fi...