ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,674, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Multicast tracing in hybrid networks" was invented by Mankamana Prasad Mishra (San Jose, Calif.), Anuj Budhiraja (San Jose, Calif.), Sridhar Santhanam (Dublin, Calif.) and Vinish Ramachandran (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media for tracing multicast paths in hybrid networks. A method for tracing multicast paths in hybrid networks includes intercepting, by an edge device, a first multicast trace request transmitted by a first network device that a source device is conn...