CUSTOMER PREMISE EQUIPMENT WITH ACCESS TO FREE MARKET BASED PRICING FOR BANDWIDTH ON A COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK

Patent №

US 9,104,986

Granted

2015-08-11

Filed 2009

Owner

EMBARQ HOLDINGS COMPANY, LLC

+1 more

Lab

AI components

1

evo

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12400362

A system and method for providing a user of communications services with free market based pricing may include providing for communications over one of multiple network paths serviced by multiple respective communications service providers via at least one communications network. One of the network paths over which to communicate based on current pricing from the multiple communications service providers may be selected and communications may be performed over the selected network path.

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AI classification

Evolutionary computation0.84
Knowledge representation0.12
Natural language0.00
Planning0.00
AI hardware0.00
Machine learning0.00
Speech0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

EMBARQ HOLDINGS COMPANY, LLC

assignment · 223650929

CENTURYLINK INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LLC

namechg · 347790440

Assignors

KERR, JADE, SMOYER, CLINTON, COOK, ANDREW, MORRISSEY, MICHAEL, MATHUR, MOHIT

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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