US Patent Issued to Level 3 Communications on July 1 for "Automated escalated policy enforcement" (Colorado, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,800, issued on July 1, was assigned to Level 3 Communications LLC (Denver).

"Automated escalated policy enforcement" was invented by Taylor Fraley IV (Erie, Colo.), Theresa MacDonald (Little Canada, Minn.) and Diane Walvatne (Orono, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes a system and method for providing automated policy enforcement. The system and method may be implemented by a service provider to enforce a policy related to copyright infringement activities. According to an example, the policy may define a system of penalty (strike) levels for violations of the policy up to a maximum number of strikes....