US Patent Issued to Ciena on Nov. 18 for "Label distribution protocol (LDP) convergence in ring topologies" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,906, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Label distribution protocol (LDP) convergence in ring topologies" was invented by Bindhia Komath (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Muthurajah Sivabalan (Ottawa), Wade Miller (Cheney, Wash.), Tao Wang (Ottawa) and Sami Boutros (Union City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method implemented by a node in a network utilizing Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) includes performing a convergence procedure to discover the topology of a network in which multiple nodes are arranged; and upon determining that the topology of the network is a ring topology whereby the node is conn...