US Patent Issued to Ciena on Nov. 3 for "Backpressure notifications to peers for BGP updates" (Canadian, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,143, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Fulton, Md.).

"Backpressure notifications to peers for BGP updates" was invented by Mahesh Giri (Ghaziabad, India), Atul Mehra (Gurgaon, India), Anurag Prakash (Kanata, Canada), Yong Yin (Ottawa), Ritesh Singal (Gurgaon, India) and Peter Pieda (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A router configured to implement Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) includes circuitry configured receive BGP update messages from the one or more BGP peers, monitor one or more operational criteria associated with handling of the received BGP update messages, detect a trigger event indicative of a risk that co...