US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on Dec. 23 for "End-to-end flow path tracing and debuggability in hybrid tenant routed multicast networks" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,681, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"End-to-end flow path tracing and debuggability in hybrid tenant routed multicast networks" was invented by Francesco Meo (San Jose, Calif.), Sachin V Vishwarupe (Santa Clara, Calif.), Lakshmi Ramesh (San Jose, Calif.) and Roshan Lal (Gilroy, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods are provided for path tracing and visibility for tenant routed multicast (TRM) flows including validating the TRM flows based on path tracing on various layers including overlay and underlay. Specifically, the methods involve obtaining at least one tenant flow data reco...