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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 20, 2018
Applicant:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/733 (2013.01); H04W 40/02 (2009.01); H04L 12/753 (2013.01); H04L 12/761 (2013.01); H04L 12/721 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/122 (2013.01); H04L 45/16 (2013.01); H04L 45/48 (2013.01); H04W 40/02 (2013.01); H04L 45/12 (2013.01);
Abstract
The proposed methodology enables finding the most efficient roots in the network to carry multicast traffic, while further providing a theoretical basis for such selection. It guarantees the minimum expected delivery cost for multicast frames in the absence of any knowledge about the source and receivers.