US Patent Issued to Ciena on May 20 for "Network timing topology discovery and visualization using interior gateway protocols" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,033, issued on May 20, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Network timing topology discovery and visualization using interior gateway protocols" was invented by Gregory Vanderydt (Ottawa), Kevin Estabrooks (Nepean, Canada) and Bashar Abdullah (Kanata, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods include receiving Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) messages from one or more network elements in a network; extracting timing information from any of the IGP messages where the timing information includes timing reference for a given network element for any of frequency, phase, and time; and storing the timing information...