Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P.

Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

Aruba Networks, Inc.

Avinash Sridharan

Ramsundar Janakiraman

Ravinder Verma

Prasad Palkar

Anubhav Gupta

Avoy Nanda

Veluchamy Dinakaran

According to one embodiment, a method comprises an operation of determining whether an ingress control message is locally terminated control traffic on a digital device prior to the ingress control message being forwarded to a hardware processor of the digital device for processing. A priority is assigned to the ingress control message based on information within the ingress control message, if the ingress control message is determined to be locally terminated control logic.

Load condition based transfer of processing responsibility

Ingress traffic classification and prioritization with dynamic load balancing

A network node includes a primary incoming interface, a secondary incoming interface and a data flow control unit. The primary incoming interface is operable to receive traffic associated with a particular source and multicast group. The secondary incoming interface is operable to serve as a backup interface if the primary incoming interface or a transmission path coupled to the primary incoming interface is inoperative. The data flow control unit is operable to determine whether the network node is part of a ring topology and if so, forward traffic received on the primary incoming interface associated with the source and multicast group to both a host which joined the multicast group and the secondary incoming interface and forward traffic received on the secondary incoming interface associated with the source and multicast group to the primary incoming interface.

Multicast dual join for ring network topologies

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Santa Clara, CA, United States of America

Avinash Sridharan