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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.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 19, 2022

Filed:

Apr. 09, 2020
Applicant:

Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Pascal Thubert, Roquefort les Pins, FR;

Huimin She, Shanghai, CN;

Feiliang Wang, Shanghai, CN;

Yinfang Wang, Shanghai, CN;

Assignee:

CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04L 12/18 (2006.01); H04L 45/16 (2022.01); H04L 49/201 (2022.01); H04L 65/611 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/18 (2013.01); H04L 45/16 (2013.01); H04L 49/201 (2013.01); H04L 65/4076 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one embodiment, a method comprises: generating, by a constrained low power and lossy network (LLN) device that is localized within a subregion of an LLN, a thin destination oriented directed acyclic graph (DODAG) having up to a prescribed limit of attached LLN devices at each hop of the thin DODAG based on generating a DODAG information object (DIO) message specifying an instruction for limiting attachment at each hop of the thin DODAG to the prescribed limit; and causing, by the constrained LLN device, multicast-only transmissions via the thin DODAG based on inserting into the DIO message a multicast-only transmission mode via the thin DODAG and outputting the DIO message, the DIO message causing each neighboring LLN device to selectively attach to the constrained LLN device as an attached child LLN device based on the instruction and execute the multicast-only transmissions via the thin DODAG.


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