US Patent Issued to Ciena on July 28 for "Tracking and reporting faults detected on different priority levels" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,659, issued on July 28, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Tracking and reporting faults detected on different priority levels" was invented by Ghulam Mustafa (Aligarh, India), Gagan Garg (Gurgaon, India), Khujasta Afreen Mohsini (New Delhi) and Nilakantha Swain (Puri, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network element configured to support Connectivity Fault Management (CFM) for Operation, Administration and Maintenance (OAM) includes circuitry configured to track faults in the CFM via a defect indication variable that includes multiple bits wherein each bit is one of a certain priority level of a plurality of priority...