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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:
Oct. 04, 2022

Filed:

Nov. 23, 2020
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Ling Wei, Shanghai, CN;

Wenjia Wu, Shanghai, CN;

Nan Yi, Shanghai, CN;

Chuanwei Li, Shanghai, CN;

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04L 45/30 (2022.01); H04L 12/46 (2006.01); H04L 12/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/30 (2013.01); H04L 12/18 (2013.01); H04L 12/46 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one embodiment, a method comprises: determining, by a network device that is configured for joining a local directed acyclic graph (DAG) instance in a data network, an unreachability by the network device to any member of the local DAG instance; generating and broadcasting, by the network device, a request message that identifies the network device requesting to join the local DAG instance, the request message causing a neighboring network device in a global DAG instance of the data network to rebroadcast the request message for reception by a member of the local DAG instance, the neighboring network device a non-member of the local DAG instance; and receiving, by the network device, a reply message indicating a member of the local DAG instance is reachable via the neighboring network device in the global DAG instance.


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