US Patent Issued to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development on Sept. 8 for "Designating a primary multicast flow and a backup multicast flow for multicast traffic" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,450, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Designating a primary multicast flow and a backup multicast flow for multicast traffic" was invented by Vinod Kumar Nagaraj (Cupertino, Calif.), Vikram Nagarajan (Bangalore, India) and Zhaohui Zhang (Westford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device may receive a first redundant multicast flow indication from a first network device, and may receive a second redundant multicast flow indication from a second network device. The device may designate a primary multicast flow based on the first redundant multicast flow indicat...