US Patent Issued to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development on Oct. 20 for "Deadlock-free multicast routing on a dragonfly network" (Canadian, British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,676, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Deadlock-free multicast routing on a dragonfly network" was invented by Edwin L. Froese (Burnaby, Canada), Robert L. Alverson (Seattle) and Konstantinos Fragkiadakis (Bristol, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for managing multicast data transmission in a network having a plurality of switches arranged in a Dragonfly network topology, including: receiving a multicast transmission at an edge port of a switch and identifying the transmission as a network multicast transmission; creating an entr...