US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on March 24 for "Flood optimization to distribute multihome source information in network" (Null, American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,404, issued on March 24, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Flood optimization to distribute multihome source information in network" was invented by Mankamana Prasad Mishra (San Jose, Calif.), Vinish Ramachandran (Bengaluru, India), Sridhar Santhanam (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Peter Psenak (Bratislava, Slovak Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises, at routers of a network configured to provide connectivity from a multicast receiver to edge routers multihomed to a multicast source of multicast traffic on an Ethernet segment: creating a limited flood domain for the Ethernet segment, wherein th...