US Patent Issued to Level 3 Communications on Nov. 4 for "Systems and methods for network device management using device clustering" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,049, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Level 3 Communications LLC (Denver).

"Systems and methods for network device management using device clustering" was invented by Michael Benjamin (Broomfield, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for managing network devices include performing clustering operations for network devices based on attributes of the network devices. By comparing the results of subsequent clustering operations, changes in network device attributes can be readily identified and any network devices for which attributes have changed may be subject to further investigation or remedial action (e.g., bloc...