Intellectual Property India Publishes Patent Application for Proactive Self-Healing In Packet-Switched Networks Using Bounded Hop-Chain Vectors

MUMBAI, India, Sept. 22 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641110054 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology on September 14, 2026, for Proactive Self-Healing In Packet-Switched Networks Using Bounded Hop-Chain Vectors.

Inventors include Navaneethan C; Taposri Saha; Anwita Padhi; and Yashes Kartik.

The application for the patent was published on September 18, 2026, under issue no. 38/2026.

Abstract: ABSTRACT PROACTIVE SELF-HEALING IN PACKET-SWITCHED NETWORKS USING BOUNDED HOP-CHAIN VECTORS A method and network system (100) for proactive self-healing in a packet-switched network are disclosed. A source router (102) generates a monitoring packet (110) that is not user data and that carries a bounded h...