US Patent Issued to Ciena on June 16 for "Detecting segment expansion changes in segment routing using dynamic shortest path first" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,261, issued on June 16, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Detecting segment expansion changes in segment routing using dynamic shortest path first" was invented by Todd Defilippi (Redwood City, Calif.) and Cengiz Alaettinoglu (Sherman Oaks, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for detecting segment expansion changes in Segment Routing using Dynamic Shortest Path First (SPF) include tracking one or more provisioned paths for one or more Segment Routing (SR) policies in a Segment Routing network, based on Shortest Path First (SPF) pairs associated with segments of the one or more provisioned paths; respo...