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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2011
Applicants:
Sri Mohana Satya Srinivas Singamsetty, Cupertino, CA (US);
Ping Pan, San Jose, CA (US);
Biao LU, Saratoga, CA (US);
Rajan Rao, Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Sri Mohana Satya Srinivas Singamsetty, Cupertino, CA (US);
Ping Pan, San Jose, CA (US);
Biao Lu, Saratoga, CA (US);
Rajan Rao, Cupertino, CA (US);
Assignee:
Infinera Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04L 12/707 (2013.01); H04L 12/703 (2013.01); H04L 12/721 (2013.01); H04L 12/723 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 43/10 (2013.01); H04L 45/22 (2013.01); H04L 45/28 (2013.01); H04L 45/26 (2013.01); H04L 45/50 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for detecting the liveliness and synchronizing the control-plane and data-plane on protecting connections in a shared mesh network environment through methods for probing the protecting connection conditions by sending in-band messages; and synchronization of control plane and data plane by using LSP-ping messages on the protecting connections.