US Patent Issued to Level 3 Communications on June 3 for "Consolidation of existing signal transfer points in a telecommunication network" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,297, issued on June 3, was assigned to Level 3 Communications LLC (Denver).

"Consolidation of existing signal transfer points in a telecommunication network" was invented by Brad Smeal (Carnegie, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to consolidation of STP pairs without deploying new STP pairs and without making changes at a Service Switching Point to reflect the consolidation. In one aspect, a method includes identifying a first pair of signal transfer point devices to be decommissioned from a telecommunication network; identifying a second pair of signal transfer point devices to assume, in part, fun...