US Patent Issued to LENOVO GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY (UNITED STATES) on April 14 for "Optimizing network load in multicast communications" (Romanian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,838, issued on April 14, was assigned to LENOVO GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY (UNITED STATES) INC. (Morrisville, N.C.).

"Optimizing network load in multicast communications" was invented by George-Andrei Stanescu (Ilfov, Romania), Corneliu-Ilie Calciu (Bucharest, Romania) and Radu Mihai Iorga (Bucharest, Romania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Optimizing network load in multicast communications including receiving, at a first interface of a first router from a second router, a multicast packet for a multicast group; determining whether a time to live (TTL) value of the multicast packet is equal to zero; and sending, in response to determining th...