US Patent Issued to Ciena on March 24 for "Enhanced fault isolation in connectivity fault management (CFM)" (Indian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,437, issued on March 24, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Enhanced fault isolation in connectivity fault management (CFM)" was invented by Ghulam Mustafa (Uttar Pradesh, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for enhanced fault isolation in connectivity fault management (CFM) enhance the functionality of maintenance domain intermediate point (MIP). The MIP is configured to monitor continuity check messages (CCMs) from a first maintenance association end point (MEP) and a second MEP, and, responsive to detection of a loss of CCMs, from the first MEP, send one or more unsolicited response messages to the ...