ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,772, issued on March 25, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).
"Variable preemption for LSP tunnels" was invented by Darek Skalecki (Ottawa), Gerald Smallegange (Stittsville, Canada) and Himanshu Shah (Hopkinton, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Variable preemption for label-switched paths (LSP) tunnels includes provisioning a label-switched path (LSP) tunnel at a first bandwidth with a first priority value; and provisioning one or more different priority values at one or more of (1) corresponding one or more bandwidths such that a current priority value of the LSP tunnel is set based on a current bandwidth value of the LS...