US Patent Issued to Level 3 Communications on Aug. 26 for "Systems and methods for configuring encapsulation tunnels based on dynamic capacity checks" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,682, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Level 3 Communications LLC (Denver).

"Systems and methods for configuring encapsulation tunnels based on dynamic capacity checks" was invented by Peter Brecl (Highlands Ranch, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatic provisioning and configuration system for threat mitigation may be provided. Hardware and software resources may be automatically configured to designate a return path for forwarding clean data packets to a target network. A return path from a scrubbing center to the target network may be selected and configured, for example, based on the geographic location of the scrubbi...