US Patent Issued to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development on Aug. 11 for "Efficient multicast source roaming in an overlay network" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,770, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Efficient multicast source roaming in an overlay network" was invented by Tathagata Nandy (Bangalore, India), Subramanian Muthukumar (Bangalore, India) and Chethan Chavadibagilu Radhakrishnabhat (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first network device operating as a tunnel endpoint in a tunnel fabric is provided. During operation, the first network device can receive, via a local port, a network join request to receive multicast traffic of a multicast group from a second network device. The first network device can store...