US Patent Issued to Level 3 communications on July 8 for "Service area determination in a telecommunications network" (Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,278, issued on July 8, was assigned to Level 3 communications LLC (Denver).

"Service area determination in a telecommunications network" was invented by Shawn Draper (Shawnee, Kan.), Vamsi Kaza (Monroe, La.), Jerry Matthews (Grove City, Ohio) and William Gray (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems and methods for correlating one or more service areas of a network with one or more geolocation coordinates to determine available services for customers to the network. A service polygon may be generated that define an area in which a particular service offered by a commun...