US 12,335,259 B2
Systems and methods for automated configuration of communications equipment
Timothy Fullenkamp, Broomfield, CO (US); Majdi Dawud, Lafayette, CO (US); Erik McLeod, Longmont, CO (US); Russell Richardson, Thornton, CO (US); and Alexander Talavera, Broomfield, CO (US)
Assigned to Level 3 Communications, LLC, Denver, CO (US)
Filed by Level 3 Communications, LLC, Broomfield, CO (US)
Filed on Sep. 27, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/935,626.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/284,079, filed on Nov. 30, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0171249 A1, Jun. 1, 2023
Int. Cl. H04L 41/082 (2022.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 63/0876 (2013.01) [H04L 41/082 (2013.01); H04L 63/20 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A nontransitory computer readable medium of a field device, storing instructions that, when executed by a processor of the field device, cause the field device to:
login to a local node device physically connected to the field device;
enable a common command protocol on the local node device;
solicit information to configure the local node device;
determine a platform type of the local node device;
generate, based on the platform type of the local node device, a command set in the enabled common command protocol according to the solicited information;
execute the command set to automatically commission the local node device to communicate with one or more other node devices commissioned in a first network;
receive an indication to initiate a remote test from the local node device;
solicit local test information corresponding to the local node device, and remote test information corresponding to a remote node device from among the one or more other node devices commissioned in the first network;
validate a login to each of the local node device and the remote node device;
generate and execute a set of local verification commands on the local node device based on the solicited local test information; and
generate and execute a set of remote verifications commands on the remote node device from the local node device based on the solicited remote test information.