US Patent Issued to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development on May 26 for "Upstream multicast hop (UMH) extensions for anycast deployments" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,952, issued on May 26, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Houston).

"Upstream multicast hop (UMH) extensions for anycast deployments" was invented by Vinod Kumar N (Bangalore, India), Robert W. Kebler (Newburyport, Mass.) and Vikram Nagarajan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example egress network device includes at least one computer processor and a memory. The memory includes instructions that cause the at least one computer processor to receive messages from each of a plurality of ingress network devices. Each message specifies a multicast source as an anycast address that belongs to two o...