MUMBAI, India, Sept. 22 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202647100572 A) filed by Ciena Corporation on August 20, 2026, for Proactively Managing Computed Optical Restoration Paths.
Inventors include Wilgosh, Michael; Campbell, Christiane, Louise; Nguyen, Hien; and Moxon, Blair.
The application for the patent was published on September 18, 2026, under issue no. 38/2026.
Abstract: Systems and methods include continuously (102) tracking health of services in an optical network (10), monitoring how many restoration paths remain accessible to an on-box control plane (16), and quality of any remaining restoration paths; managing (104) restoration paths installed on a plurality of nodes (12) in the optical netw...