US Patent Issued to Ciena on Sept. 1 for "Service level alarm reporting control" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,398, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Service level alarm reporting control" was invented by Trevor John Ibach (Manotick, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network element includes a plurality of ports configured to connect to a network; and circuitry configured to configure a service with a second network element in the network where the service utilizes a plurality of resources on the network element and the second network element, configure alarm suppression on the service, detect faults associated with the plurality of resources for the service and suppress reporting of alarms based on the ala...