ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,733, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Domain border router resiliency with segment compaction" was invented by Todd Defilippi (Redwood City, Calif.) and Amal Karboubi (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for domain Border Router (BR) resiliency with segment compaction in Segment Routing include obtaining a compressed segment list for a calculated path in a Segment Routing network, wherein the Segment Routing network includes a plurality of domains with the calculated path being through at least two domains, wherein the compressed segment list includes a plurality of Segment Ident...