MUMBAI, India, Sept. 22 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202647100572 A) filed by Ciena Corporation on August 20, 2026, for Proactively Managing Computed Optical Restoration Paths.
Inventors include Wilgosh, Michael; Campbell, Christiane, Louise; Nguyen, Hien; and Moxon, Blair.
The application for the patent was published on September 18, 2026, under issue no. 38/2026.
Abstract: Systems and methods include continuously (102) tracking health of services in an optical network (10), monitoring how many restoration paths remain accessible to an on-box control plane (16), and quality of any remaining restoration paths; managing (104) restoration paths installed on a plurality of nodes (12) in the optical network (10) to one or more of remove unavailable restoration paths and add new available restoration paths for any of the services in the optical network (10); responsive (106) to detecting one or more at-risk services, for (108) the one or more at-risk services, performing computation of new viable restoration paths and a multi-stage policy- based ranking of the new restoration paths for the one or more at-risk services; and for (110) the one or more at risk services, pushing the ranked new viable restoration paths to the on-box control plane (16) based on thresholds.
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