US Patent Issued to Ciena on Dec. 30 for "Security mode enhancement for connectivity fault management (CFM)" (Indian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,066, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Security mode enhancement for connectivity fault management (CFM)" was invented by Ghulam Mustafa (Aligarh, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for enhancing the Connectivity Fault Management (CFM) protocol defined in IEEE 802.1Q are provided. In particular, a method includes receiving one or more messages associated with a link connectivity protocol that for detecting link connectivity issues of an Ethernet service in a section of a network and responding to the link connectivity issues; and maintaining two databases for learning nodes in the n...