US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on May 26 for "Controller-based multicast interworking" (Indian, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,954, issued on May 26, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Controller-based multicast interworking" was invented by Atahar Khan (Bangalore, India), Vinay Saini (Karnatka, India), Ankush Ganpatrai Arora (Mumbai, India) and Ganesh Ramalingam Chelliah (Westmead, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "With a controller coupled to a first multicast domain and a second multicast domain having incompatible multicast profiles, source and group (S,G) state information may be extracted from a plurality of nodes of the first multicast domain and the second multicast domain, A first interdomain border node may be within t...