US Patent Issued to Fortinet on Aug. 25 for "Management of wireless and wired multicast traffic" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,575, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Management of wireless and wired multicast traffic" was invented by Ruchir Mishra (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Ankur Jain (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Stations are monitored that join and leave a multicast group associated with one or more switches over a wired channel and one or more access points over a wireless channel. At least one of latency or packet loss over a threshold are detected for a specific VLAN group. Multicast traffic is segregated in response to the detection, at the one or more switches, by reassigning stations that are not a...