John K. Oltman — 20 Patents at Ciena

John K. Oltman has been granted 20 US patents while listed as an inventor at Ciena. The first was granted in 2009 and the most recent in April 2025. John K. Oltman ranks #214,803 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.2%). Patent records list John K. Oltman in Atlanta, GA, US.

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Patent #	Title	Co-Inventors	Date	Approx Value ⓘ
12267102	Prioritizing optical routes for restoration based on failure impact on an IP layer	Cengiz Alaettinoglu, Gerard L. Swinkels	2025-04-01
11575431	Opportunistic network defragmentation and optimization	Andrew D. Shiner, David W. Boertjes	2023-02-07	$14,109,000
11496817	Proactively detecting failures on restoration paths in an optical network and visualizations thereof	Alex W. MacKay, Christiane Louise Campbell, David W. Boertjes, Tommaso D'Ippolito	2022-11-08	$21,195,000
11070286	Opportunistic network defragmentation and optimization	Andrew D. Shiner, David W. Boertjes	2021-07-20	$32,538,000
10063336	Protected transponded services integrated with control plane switched services	Jeffrey Scott Moynihan, Jeffery Thomas Nichols	2018-08-28	$8,052,000
9980021	Scalable switch fabric using optical interconnects	Jeffery Thomas Nichols	2018-05-22	$28,276,000
9774493	Retention of a sub-network connection home path	Jeffrey Scott Moynihan, Vagish Madrahalli, Neena Aluri	2017-09-26	$6,557,000
9680588	OTN switching systems and methods using an SDN controller and match/action rules	Matthew W. Connolly	2017-06-13	$14,888,000
9240905	Protecting hybrid equipment in a network node	Matthew W. Connolly, Jeffrey Scott Moynihan	2016-01-19	$17,172,000
9167318	Bandwidth advertisement systems and methods for optical transport network	Matthew W. Connolly, Bhavesh Nisar	2015-10-20	$21,334,000
9148382	Adaptive Ethernet flow control systems and methods	Matthew W. Connolly, Steven A. Surek	2015-09-29	$4,556,000
9143227	Optical transport network port protection systems and methods using flexible switch criteria	Jeffrey Scott Moynihan, Trevor John Ibach, Trevor Donald Corkum	2015-09-22	$3,666,000
9071532	Method for discovery and load balancing of path computation elements based on transport plane link metrics	Lyndon Y. Ong	2015-06-30	$6,635,000
8619553	Methods and systems for mesh restoration based on associated hop designated transit lists	Vagish Madrahalli, Alessandro Fabbri	2013-12-31	$12,468,000
8559812	Methods and systems for the hierarchical mesh restoration of connections in an automatically switched optical network	Matthew W. Connolly, Jon Carroll	2013-10-15	$28,497,000
8553586	Systems and methods for automatically building and repairing a spanning tree flooding backbone in link state routed networks	Alexander A. Smith	2013-10-08	$6,986,000
8089866	Spanning tree flooding backbone systems and methods for link state routed networks	Alexander A. Smith	2012-01-03	$8,549,000
7796501	System and methods for redundant switch fabric and switch controller	Manuel Damas, Jeffrey M. Bushman	2010-09-14	$7,344,000
7734126	Systems and methods for chirp control of a dual arm z-modulator to minimize dispersion effect of fiber plant	Boris Kershteyn	2010-06-08	$2,026,000
7539359	Systems and methods for chirp control of a dual arm Z-modulator to minimize dispersion effect of fiber plant	Boris Kershteyn	2009-05-26	$8,143,000

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