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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 22, 2010
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2004
Applicants:
Sandy NG, Milpitas, CA (US);
Gargi Nalawade, San Jose, CA (US);
Steven V. Luong, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In a link state protocol such as an interior gateway protocol (IGP), link state advertisements or link state packets (LSA/LSPs) are sent only to network nodes that have expressed interest in them, rather than always flooding them.