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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 11, 2016
Applicant:
Ciena Corporation, Hanover, MD (US);
Inventors:
Kyle Gosselin-Harris, Greenacres, WA (US);
David Gilson, Honolulu, HI (US);
Assignee:
Ciena Corporation, Hanover, MD (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/911 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 47/782 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for resource management includes receiving, from a client, an allocation request for a resource, and assigning, to the client, a partition of a hierarchical resource tree. The partition is in multiple partitions of the hierarchical resource tree. The method further includes identifying a deallocated resource in the partition, and allocating, to the client, the first deallocated resource from the partition to create an allocated resource.