MUMBAI, India, Aug. 17 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202411089254 A) filed by Ciena Corporation on November 18, 2024, for Border Gateway Protocol Outbound Route Filtering Using Community Attribute.

Inventors include Anil Dharmshaktu; Parul Saini; Param Preet Dhillon; and Varun Munjal.

The application for the patent was published on August 14, 2026, under issue no. 33/2026.

Abstract: BORDER GATEWAY PROTOCOL OUTBOUND ROUTE FILTERING USING COMMUNITY ATTRIBUTE Systems and methods for border gateway protocol (BGP) outbound route filtering (ORF) using community attribute include, responsive (52) to tagging one or more prefixes in border gateway protocol (BGP) with one or more community attributes for outbound route filtering (ORF) in a network (10), transmitting a single route refresh message with the one or more community attributes to a BGP peer router (12A) for purposes of the BGP peer router (12A) applying the ORF based on the one or more community attributes; and receiving (54) prefixes from the BGP peer router (12A) based on the ORF applied at the BGP peer router (12A). FIG. 2

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