US Patent Issued to CIENA on July 8 for "Source routing techniques that utilize encoded network paths" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,654, issued on July 8, was assigned to CIENA Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Source routing techniques that utilize encoded network paths" was invented by Marc Holness (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, identifying a network topology that includes a group of nodes and a number of segment reference values corresponding to network segments between pairs of nodes of the group of nodes. A message including a path index that corresponds to a particular network path of an indexed arrangement of unique paths is received, at a node of the group of nodes. The particular network path includ...