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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 06, 2023
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Mankamana Prasad Mishra, San Jose, CA (US);
Rajiv Asati, Morrisville, NC (US);
Nitin Kumar, San Jose, CA (US);
Krishnaswamy Muddenahally Anathamurthy, Leander, TX (US);
Frank Brockners, Cologne, DE;
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
According to one or more embodiments of the disclosure, an example process herein may comprise: causing, responsive to a triggering event, establishment of a service tree that follows a same path as a multicast parent tree through a data communication network to one or more intended recipient devices; causing a duplication of a particular flow from the multicast parent tree to the service tree; causing a determination of a performance characteristic of the particular flow through the service tree; and causing an association of the performance characteristic with the multicast parent tree.