US Patent Issued to TP-Link Systems on Aug. 11 for "Method, apparatus and device for controlling multicast frame message forwarding" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,871, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to TP-Link Systems Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Method, apparatus and device for controlling multicast frame message forwarding" was invented by Xiaolong Zhou (Shenzhen, China), Rui Chen (Shenzhen, China) and Shengbo Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for controlling multicast frame message forwarding, a communication device, and a computer-readable medium are provided. The method includes: acquiring a multicast frame message; and inhibiting forwarding the multicast frame message, in response to a number of previously forwarded duplicate messages of the multica...