US Patent Issued to Ciena on Oct. 27 for "Graceful transition in a connectivity test when a discriminator is changed in a seamless bidirectional forwarding detection (S-BFD) reflector node" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,974, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Fulton, Md.).

"Graceful transition in a connectivity test when a discriminator is changed in a seamless bidirectional forwarding detection (S-BFD) reflector node" was invented by Sudipta Das (New Delhi), Pankaj Verma (Kanpur, India) and Aditya Mittal (Gurgaon, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for performing connectivity checks, such as Seamless Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (S-BFD), are provided. A node is configured to operate in a network, the node is a Seamless Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (S-BFD) reflector node configured to operate an S-BFD s...