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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2026
Filed:
Jul. 18, 2024
Applicant:
Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventors:
Deepak Kakrania, Bangalore, IN;
Suraj Kumar, Bangalore, IN;
Assignee:
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP, Houston, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/18 (2006.01); H04L 12/46 (2006.01); H04L 45/00 (2022.01); H04L 45/745 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/1886 (2013.01); H04L 12/4633 (2013.01); H04L 45/66 (2013.01); H04L 45/745 (2013.01);
Abstract
The forwarding of BUM traffic in routers and/or switches (e.g., in environments such as interconnected L2 broadcast domains, such as DCs and DCIs with a VXLAN overlay) is improved so that BUM traffic is properly forward, but with reduced (e.g., eliminated) unnecessary duplication and/or flooding.
Kakrania, Deepak. (2026). Avoiding unwanted duplication and/or flooding for layer 2 unknown unicast and/or layer 2 internet protocol (ip) multicast (bum) traffic, for example, in devices used in vxlan data centers and data center interconnects (U.S. Patent No. 12640955). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/12640955
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