US Patent Issued to Ciena on March 11 for "Segment routing SRv6 S-BFD and ping replies having deterministic reply path" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,139, issued on March 11, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Segment routing SRv6 S-BFD and ping replies having deterministic reply path" 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: "A node is configured to operate in a Segment Routing (SR) over Internet Protocol version 6 (SRv6) network, and the node includes circuitry configured to determine a Segment Identifier (SID) list for a forward path in the SRv6 network and SID list for a reverse path in the SRv6 network; and transmit a monitoring packet on the forward path including a Segmen...