US Patent Issued to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development on March 31 for "Optimization of link bandwidth consumption in a layer-2 multicast network" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,844, issued on March 31, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Optimization of link bandwidth consumption in a layer-2 multicast network" was invented by Tathagata Nandy (Bangalore, India), Subramanian Muthukumar (Bangalore, India) and Priyam De (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One aspect can provide a system and method for selective data forwarding in a multicast network. During operation, a querier router in the multicast network receives, at a first port of, a query-response packet from a network device in response to an all-host query sent by the querier router and add the fi...