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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 01, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 16, 2003
Applicants:
Chickayya Naik, San Jose, CA (US);
Giovanni Meo, San Francisco, CA (US);
Karthikeyan Gurusamy, San Jose, CA (US);
Mouli Vytla, San Jose, CA (US);
Senthilkumar Krishnamurthy, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Chickayya Naik, San Jose, CA (US);
Giovanni Meo, San Francisco, CA (US);
Karthikeyan Gurusamy, San Jose, CA (US);
Mouli Vytla, San Jose, CA (US);
Senthilkumar Krishnamurthy, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/66 (2006.01); G06F 15/173 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Efficient multicasting within a layer 2 network is provided. Participation by a layer 3 router is not required. The spanning tree created by common layer 2 networking protocols is exploited for multicast signaling and traffic handling.