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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 05, 2019
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Hendrikus G. P. Bosch, Aalsmeer, NL;
Sape Jurriën Mullender, Amsterdam, NL;
Keith Burns, San Jose, CA (US);
Jeffrey Napper, Delft, NL;
William Mark Townsley, Paris, FR;
Alessandro Duminuco, Milan, IT;
Andre Surcouf, Saint Leu la Foret, FR;
Ijsbrand Wijnands, Leuven, BE;
Humberto J. La Roche, Ocean, NJ (US);
CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method is provided in one example embodiment and may include determining at a parent content node that a plurality of recipient content nodes are to receive a same content; generating, based on a determination that the same content is available at the parent content node, a multi-delivery header comprising a plurality of identifiers, wherein each identifier of the plurality of identifiers indicates each recipient content node that is to receive the same content; appending the multi-delivery header to one or more packets of an Internet Protocol (IP) flow associated with the same content; and transmitting packets for the IP flow to each of the plurality of the recipient content nodes.