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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 2008
Filed:
Apr. 08, 2003
Applicants:
Donald F. Hooper, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Suresh S. Kalkunte, San Diego, CA (US);
Inventors:
Donald F. Hooper, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Suresh S. Kalkunte, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04L 12/56 (2006.01); H04J 3/26 (2006.01); G06F 15/173 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes a technique of determining forwarding information for at least a sub-set of members of a multi cast group, and sending, toward a downstream entity, at most a single copy of data to be multicasted to the sub-set of members and the determined forwarding information.