ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,131, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Level 3 Communications LLC (Denver).
"Automatic loop testing" was invented by Michael Wright (Basingstoke, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing automatic loop testing. In various embodiments, a computing system may receive a request to test a network loop; may establish a static route to a target test device that is part of the network loop, the route comprising the network loop to the target test device and back; may execute an automated script to test the network loop, by: sending test data at a first rate to the target test d...