ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,520, issued on May 12, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Multicast data stream with improved user experience" was invented by Tathagata Nandy (Bangalore, India), Chethan Chavadibagilu Radhakrishnabhat (Bangalore, India), Subramanian Muthukumar (Bangalore, India) and Mark A Pearson (Roseville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device receives multicast data originating from a source device, wherein the network device is in communication with at least one client device. The system identifies traffic patterns associated with the multicast data and classifies the multicast data into ...