US Patent Issued to Ciena on April 1 for "Dynamic path computation in networks based on automatically detected unavoidable risks" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,231, issued on April 1, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Dynamic path computation in networks based on automatically detected unavoidable risks" was invented by Bhupendra Yadav (Ottawa), Prabhu Vaithilingam (Kanata, Canada) and Gerald Smallegange (Stittsville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for dynamic path computation in networks based on automatically detected unavoidable risks include receiving a plurality of shared risks associated with any of one or more network layers, network links, and network equipment; automatically creating a local ignore list for a source node and a remote ignore lis...