US Patent Issued to Intel on Sept. 22 for "Network support for reliable multicast operations" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,690, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Network support for reliable multicast operations" was invented by Amedeo Sapio (San Jose, Calif.), Daniel A. Alvarez (Oakland, Calif.) and Anurag Agrawal (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples described herein relate to a switch circuitry that includes circuitry to cause transmission, to multiple destinations, of copies of a packet received from a sender network interface device and circuitry to indicate acknowledgement of packet receipt, from the multiple destinations, to the sender network interface device based on receipt of acknow...