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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2025
Filed:
May. 31, 2024
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Navdeep Sood, Karnataka, IN;
Praveen Kumar, Karnataka, IN;
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Backup communication paths can be determined for use by different circuits of a network in the event of a failure of active communication paths. The disclosed backup path determination techniques can reduce contention in which multiple circuits share a backup path. Contention metrics are determined for communication paths in the network. The contention metrics are used to determine a communication path for contention reduction. A circuit that uses the communication path as a backup path is selected, and the backup path of the selected circuit is modified to avoid the communication path. Contention metrics can then be recalculated, and contention reduction techniques can be repeated until a desired convergence point is reached.