US Patent Issued to Ciena on May 26 for "Circuit style segment routing policies with compressed SID list" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,019, issued on May 26, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Circuit style segment routing policies with compressed SID list" was invented by Cengiz Alaettinoglu (Sherman Oaks, Calif.), Amal Karboubi (Oshawa, Canada), Himanshu Shah (Hopkinton, Mass.) and Muthurajah Sivabalan (Kanata, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A head-end node in a Segment Routing network includes circuitry configured to detect a failure of a Segment Routing policy, set an eligibility flag for the candidate path associated with the Segment Routing policy to false, and, if one or more other candidate paths exist for the Segment Routing policy, switch t...