US Patent Issued to ARISTA NETWORKS on March 24 for "Neighbor router identification for multicast RSVP fast reroute" (Canadian, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,472, issued on March 24, was assigned to ARISTA NETWORKS INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Neighbor router identification for multicast RSVP fast reroute" was invented by Jeffrey Christopher Hornsberger (Vancouver, Canada), Damien Raphael Leo Fleurisson (Paris) and Quintin Alexander Smith (Burnaby, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for performing neighbor router identification in the context of multicast RSVP fast reroute. In one set of embodiments, these techniques enable a Merge Point (MP) to correctly identify a Point of Local Repair (PLR) that transmitted a backup RSVP Path message in the scenario where the MP has mult...