Gerard Leo Swinkels

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Ottawa, CA

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Patents Grantslast 30 patents

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Methods and systems for managing optical network services including...
- Patent number 11,914,855
- Issue date Feb 27, 2024
- Ciena Corporation
- Christiane Campbell
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
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Segment routing traffic engineering based on link utilization
- Patent number 11,909,645
- Issue date Feb 20, 2024
- Ciena Corporation
- Darek Skalecki
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
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Interworking between variable capacity optical layer and ethernet/I...
- Patent number 11,785,365
- Issue date Oct 10, 2023
- Ciena Corporation
- Cengiz Alaettinoglu
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Logical to physical link mapping in a fiber optic network
- Patent number 11,563,486
- Issue date Jan 24, 2023
- Ciena Corporation
- Gerard L. Swinkels
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
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Methods and systems for managing optical network services including...
- Patent number 11,507,262
- Issue date Nov 22, 2022
- Ciena Corporation
- Christiane Campbell
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Localizing anomalies of a fiber optic network within the context of...
- Patent number 11,101,884
- Issue date Aug 24, 2021
- Ciena Corporation
- Christiane Louise Campbell
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
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Management of flexible grid and supercarriers in optical networks u...
- Patent number 10,958,993
- Issue date Mar 23, 2021
- Ciena Corporation
- Gerard L. Swinkels
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Bulk data transfer over MDIO (clause 45) bus
- Patent number 10,824,551
- Issue date Nov 3, 2020
- Ciena Corporation
- David Woods
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Systems and methods for managing excess optical capacity and margin...
- Patent number 10,715,888
- Issue date Jul 14, 2020
- Ciena Corporation
- Gerard L. Swinkels
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
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Systems and methods to increase capacity in optical networks based...
- Patent number 10,680,739
- Issue date Jun 9, 2020
- Ciena Corporation
- Gerard L. Swinkels
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Segment routing traffic engineering based on link utilization
- Patent number 10,541,923
- Issue date Jan 21, 2020
- Ciena Corporation
- Darek Skalecki
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Management of flexible grid and supercarriers in optical networks u...
- Patent number 10,455,300
- Issue date Oct 22, 2019
- Ciena Corporation
- Gerard L. Swinkels
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Dynamic adjustment of connection priority in networks
- Patent number 10,341,258
- Issue date Jul 2, 2019
- Ciena Corporation
- Jatin Sareen
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Configuring a secure network infrastructure device
- Patent number 10,333,777
- Issue date Jun 25, 2019
- Ciena Corporation
- Gerard Leo Swinkels
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Metered interface
- Patent number 10,334,539
- Issue date Jun 25, 2019
- Ciena Corporation
- Gerard Leo Swinkels
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Efficient prioritized restoration of services in a control plane-ba...
- Patent number 10,284,661
- Issue date May 7, 2019
- Ciena Corporation
- Darek Skalecki
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Systems and methods for managing excess optical capacity and margin...
- Patent number 10,257,596
- Issue date Apr 9, 2019
- Ciena Corporation
- Gerard L. Swinkels
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Management of flexible grid and supercarriers in optical networks u...
- Patent number 10,200,770
- Issue date Feb 5, 2019
- Ciena Corporation
- Gerard L. Swinkels
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Systems and methods to increase capacity in optical networks based...
- Patent number 10,148,384
- Issue date Dec 4, 2018
- Ciena Corporation
- Gerard L. Swinkels
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Efficient shared risk group representation as a bit vector
- Patent number 10,116,552
- Issue date Oct 30, 2018
- Ciena Corporation
- Darek Skalecki
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
System and method for managing network connections
- Patent number 10,110,423
- Issue date Oct 23, 2018
- Ciena Corporation
- Darek Skalecki
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Metered interface
- Patent number 9,930,627
- Issue date Mar 27, 2018
- Ciena Corporation
- Gerard Leo Swinkels
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Control plane assisted optical switch
- Patent number 9,918,148
- Issue date Mar 13, 2018
- Ciena Corporation
- Gerard Leo Swinkels
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Systems and methods improving optical restoration time in networks
- Patent number 9,906,294
- Issue date Feb 27, 2018
- Ciena Corporation
- Choudhury A. Al Sayeed
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
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Efficient prioritized restoration of services in a control plane-ba...
- Patent number 9,876,865
- Issue date Jan 23, 2018
- Ciena Corporation
- Darek Skalecki
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
TDM network call with compound service layer agreement
- Patent number 9,838,763
- Issue date Dec 5, 2017
- Ciena Corporation
- Gerard Leo Swinkels
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Flexible behavior modification during restoration in optical networks
- Patent number 9,832,548
- Issue date Nov 28, 2017
- Ciena Corporation
- Jeffrey Scott Moynihan
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Network-based ethernet switching packet switch, network, and method
- Patent number 9,819,586
- Issue date Nov 14, 2017
- Ciena Corporation
- Gerard Leo Swinkels
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Mesh restorable service systems and methods with preemptible establ...
- Patent number 9,800,325
- Issue date Oct 24, 2017
- Ciena Corporation
- Darek Skalecki
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
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Make-before-break systems and methods decoupling a control plane fr...
- Patent number 9,800,522
- Issue date Oct 24, 2017
- Ciena Corporation
- Mohit Chhillar
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

Information Patent Application
Interworking between variable capacity optical layer and Ethernet/I...
- Publication number 20240323117
- Publication date Sep 26, 2024
- CIENA CORPORATION
- Cengiz Alaettinoglu
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING OPTICAL NETWORK SERVICES INCLUDING...
- Publication number 20230125468
- Publication date Apr 27, 2023
- CIENA CORPORATION
- Christiane CAMPBELL
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Interworking between variable capacity optical layer and Ethernet/I...
- Publication number 20230083172
- Publication date Mar 16, 2023
- CIENA CORPORATION
- Cengiz Alaettinoglu
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
Logical to physical link mapping in a fiber optic network
- Publication number 20210376923
- Publication date Dec 2, 2021
- CIENA CORPORATION
- Gerard L. Swinkels
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
Segment Routing Traffic Engineering based on link utilization
- Publication number 20200366613
- Publication date Nov 19, 2020
- CIENA CORPORATION
- Darek SKALECKI
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
Management of flexible grid and supercarriers in optical networks u...
- Publication number 20200007965
- Publication date Jan 2, 2020
- CIENA CORPORATION
- Gerard L. Swinkels
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
Systems and methods to increase capacity in optical networks based...
- Publication number 20190386766
- Publication date Dec 19, 2019
- CIENA CORPORATION
- Gerard L. SWINKELS
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
Bulk Data Transfer over MDIO (Clause 45) Bus
- Publication number 20190317890
- Publication date Oct 17, 2019
- CIENA CORPORATION
- David WOODS
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
SEGMENT ROUTING TRAFFIC ENGINEERING BASED ON LINK UTILIZATION
- Publication number 20190245787
- Publication date Aug 8, 2019
- CIENA CORPORATION
- Darek SKALECKI
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
Systems and methods for managing excess optical capacity and margin...
- Publication number 20190215586
- Publication date Jul 11, 2019
- CIENA CORPORATION
- Gerard L. Swinkels
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
Management of flexible grid and supercarriers in optical networks u...
- Publication number 20190174211
- Publication date Jun 6, 2019
- CIENA CORPORATION
- Gerard L. Swinkels
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
Management of flexible grid and supercarriers in optical networks u...
- Publication number 20180295429
- Publication date Oct 11, 2018
- CIENA CORPORATION
- Gerard L. Swinkels
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
EFFICIENT SHARED RISK GROUP REPRESENTATION AS A BIT VECTOR
- Publication number 20180262421
- Publication date Sep 13, 2018
- CIENA CORPORATION
- Darek SKALECKI
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING OPTICAL NETWORK SERVICES INCLUDING...
- Publication number 20180239522
- Publication date Aug 23, 2018
- CIENA CORPORATION
- Christiane CAMPBELL
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
METERED INTERFACE
- Publication number 20180176872
- Publication date Jun 21, 2018
- CIENA CORPORATION
- Gerard Leo Swinkels
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
EFFICIENT PRIORITIZED RESTORATION OF SERVICES IN A CONTROL PLANE-BA...
- Publication number 20180131776
- Publication date May 10, 2018
- CIENA CORPORATION
- Darek SKALECKI
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING NETWORK CONNECTIONS
- Publication number 20180013613
- Publication date Jan 11, 2018
- CIENA CORPORATION
- Darek Skalecki
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
CONTROL PLANE ASSISTED OPTICAL SWITCH
- Publication number 20170339473
- Publication date Nov 23, 2017
- CIENA CORPORATION
- Gerard Leo SWINKELS
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
MESH RESTORABLE SERVICE SYSTEMS AND METHODS WITH PREEMPTIBLE ESTABL...
- Publication number 20170317744
- Publication date Nov 2, 2017
- CIENA CORPORATION
- Darek SKALECKI
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
DYNAMIC ADJUSTMENT OF CONNECTION PRIORITY IN NETWORKS
- Publication number 20170317953
- Publication date Nov 2, 2017
- CIENA CORPORATION
- Jatin SAREEN
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
FLEXIBLE BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION DURING RESTORATION IN OPTICAL NETWORKS
- Publication number 20170223436
- Publication date Aug 3, 2017
- CIENA CORPORATION
- Jeffrey Scott MOYNIHAN
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
CONTROL PLANE ASSISTED OPTICAL SWITCH
- Publication number 20170099530
- Publication date Apr 6, 2017
- CIENA CORPORATION
- Gerard Leo SWINKELS
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
SYSTEMS AND METHODS IMPROVING OPTICAL RESTORATION TIME IN NETWORKS
- Publication number 20170085316
- Publication date Mar 23, 2017
- CIENA CORPORATION
- Choudhury A. Al Sayeed
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO INCREASE CAPACITY IN OPTICAL NETWORKS BASED...
- Publication number 20170048018
- Publication date Feb 16, 2017
- CIENA CORPORATION
- Gerard L. SWINKELS
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
FAST INTERLAYER FORWARDING
- Publication number 20160380880
- Publication date Dec 29, 2016
- CIENA CORPORATION
- Gerard Leo SWINKELS
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
METERED INTERFACE
- Publication number 20160381651
- Publication date Dec 29, 2016
- CIENA CORPORATION
- Gerard Leo Swinkels
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
TDM NETWORK CALL WITH COMPOUND SERVICE LAYER AGREEMENT
- Publication number 20160380818
- Publication date Dec 29, 2016
- CIENA CORPORATION
- Gerard Leo SWINKELS
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
NETWORK-BASED ETHERNET SWITCHING PACKET SWITCH, NETWORK, AND METHOD
- Publication number 20160191386
- Publication date Jun 30, 2016
- CIENA CORPORATION
- Gerard Leo SWINKELS
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
MAKE-BEFORE-BREAK SYSTEMS AND METHODS DECOUPLING A CONTROL PLANE FR...
- Publication number 20160105380
- Publication date Apr 14, 2016
- CIENA CORPORATION
- Mohit CHHILLAR
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING EXCESS OPTICAL CAPACITY AND MARGIN...
- Publication number 20160050470
- Publication date Feb 18, 2016
- Gerard L. Swinkels
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE

Gerard Leo Swinkels

Person

Patents Grantslast 30 patents

Methods and systems for managing optical network services including...

Segment routing traffic engineering based on link utilization

Interworking between variable capacity optical layer and ethernet/I...

Logical to physical link mapping in a fiber optic network

Methods and systems for managing optical network services including...

Localizing anomalies of a fiber optic network within the context of...

Management of flexible grid and supercarriers in optical networks u...

Bulk data transfer over MDIO (clause 45) bus

Systems and methods for managing excess optical capacity and margin...

Systems and methods to increase capacity in optical networks based...

Segment routing traffic engineering based on link utilization

Management of flexible grid and supercarriers in optical networks u...

Dynamic adjustment of connection priority in networks

Configuring a secure network infrastructure device

Metered interface

Efficient prioritized restoration of services in a control plane-ba...

Systems and methods for managing excess optical capacity and margin...

Management of flexible grid and supercarriers in optical networks u...

Systems and methods to increase capacity in optical networks based...

Efficient shared risk group representation as a bit vector

System and method for managing network connections

Metered interface

Control plane assisted optical switch

Systems and methods improving optical restoration time in networks

Efficient prioritized restoration of services in a control plane-ba...

TDM network call with compound service layer agreement

Flexible behavior modification during restoration in optical networks

Network-based ethernet switching packet switch, network, and method

Mesh restorable service systems and methods with preemptible establ...

Make-before-break systems and methods decoupling a control plane fr...

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

Interworking between variable capacity optical layer and Ethernet/I...

METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING OPTICAL NETWORK SERVICES INCLUDING...

Interworking between variable capacity optical layer and Ethernet/I...

Logical to physical link mapping in a fiber optic network

Segment Routing Traffic Engineering based on link utilization

Management of flexible grid and supercarriers in optical networks u...

Systems and methods to increase capacity in optical networks based...

Bulk Data Transfer over MDIO (Clause 45) Bus

SEGMENT ROUTING TRAFFIC ENGINEERING BASED ON LINK UTILIZATION

Systems and methods for managing excess optical capacity and margin...

Management of flexible grid and supercarriers in optical networks u...

Management of flexible grid and supercarriers in optical networks u...

EFFICIENT SHARED RISK GROUP REPRESENTATION AS A BIT VECTOR

METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING OPTICAL NETWORK SERVICES INCLUDING...

METERED INTERFACE

EFFICIENT PRIORITIZED RESTORATION OF SERVICES IN A CONTROL PLANE-BA...

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING NETWORK CONNECTIONS

CONTROL PLANE ASSISTED OPTICAL SWITCH

MESH RESTORABLE SERVICE SYSTEMS AND METHODS WITH PREEMPTIBLE ESTABL...

DYNAMIC ADJUSTMENT OF CONNECTION PRIORITY IN NETWORKS

FLEXIBLE BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION DURING RESTORATION IN OPTICAL NETWORKS

CONTROL PLANE ASSISTED OPTICAL SWITCH

SYSTEMS AND METHODS IMPROVING OPTICAL RESTORATION TIME IN NETWORKS

SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO INCREASE CAPACITY IN OPTICAL NETWORKS BASED...

FAST INTERLAYER FORWARDING

METERED INTERFACE

TDM NETWORK CALL WITH COMPOUND SERVICE LAYER AGREEMENT

NETWORK-BASED ETHERNET SWITCHING PACKET SWITCH, NETWORK, AND METHOD

MAKE-BEFORE-BREAK SYSTEMS AND METHODS DECOUPLING A CONTROL PLANE FR...

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING EXCESS OPTICAL CAPACITY AND MARGIN...