US Patent Issued to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development on May 26 for "Avoiding unwanted duplication and/or flooding for layer 2 unknown unicast and/or layer 2 internet protocol (IP) multicast (BUM) traffic, for example, in devices used in VXLAN data centers and data center interconnects" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,955, issued on May 26, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Houston).

"Avoiding unwanted duplication and/or flooding for layer 2 unknown unicast and/or layer 2 internet protocol (IP) multicast (BUM) traffic, for example, in devices used in VXLAN data centers and data center interconnects" was invented by Deepak Kakrania (Bangalore, India) and Suraj Kumar (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The forwarding of BUM traffic in routers and/or switches (e.g., in environments such as interconnected L2 broadcast domains, such as DCs and DCIs with a VXLAN overlay) is improved so that BUM traffic is properly fo...