US Patent Issued to Ciena on Dec. 30 for "Diversifying k-shortest path computation results for multiple vertices as destination or as inclusion constraint" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,077, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Diversifying k-shortest path computation results for multiple vertices as destination or as inclusion constraint" was invented by Ankur Jain (Gurgaon, India) and Suvendu Kumar Barik (Bhubaneswar, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for diversifying k-shortest path computation results for multiple vertices as destination or as inclusion constraint include receiving a request for k paths, in a network from a source port at a source node to a node, wherein the node includes a plurality of ports; representing the network as a graph with vertices rep...