US 11,689,423 B2
Autonomous internet service scaling in a network
Pavan Sudheer Rampalli, Englewood, CO (US); and Zubin Ingah, Centennial, CO (US)
Assigned to CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC, Broomfield, CO (US)
Filed by CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC, Broomfield, CO (US)
Filed on Oct. 22, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/508,239.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/113,659, filed on Nov. 13, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0158899 A1, May 19, 2022
Int. Cl. H04L 41/0816 (2022.01); H04L 41/083 (2022.01); H04L 43/022 (2022.01); H04L 41/0806 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 41/083 (2013.01) [H04L 41/0806 (2013.01); H04L 41/0816 (2013.01); H04L 43/022 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A network management method comprising:
in a network including a network device and providing an Internet service to a connected network, autonomously instantiating, in response to Internet service consumption by the connected network, a virtual network device on the network device, to change an available communication speed for Internet service to the connected network; and
autonomously decommissioning, in response to a second network operating condition and from the device of the network, a virtual network device to decrease the available transmission speed for Internet access to the connected network.