US Patent Issued to Ciena on April 1 for "Prioritizing optical routes for restoration based on failure impact on an IP layer" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,102, issued on April 1, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Prioritizing optical routes for restoration based on failure impact on an IP layer" was invented by Cengiz Alaettinoglu (Sherman Oaks, Calif.), Gerard Leo Swinkels (Ottawa) and John K. Oltman (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods include receiving a list of prioritized optical restoration paths for each of a plurality of failures in a multi-layer network, wherein each list of prioritized optical restoration paths for a corresponding failure of the plurality of failures is determined based on modeling impact of the given failure on a higher laye...