ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,488, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).
"Discovering a reverse path for initiating bidirectional forwarding detection (BFD)" was invented by Aditya Mittal (Gurgaon, India), Pankaj Verma (Kanpur, India) and Sudipta Das (New Delhi).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods at a reflector node include steps of receiving a request from an initiator node in the network, the request having been sent in a forward direction from the initiator node to the reflector node to discover a reverse path in a reverse direction from the reflector node to the initiator node, and transmitting a reply to the initiator ...