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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2008
Jean-marc Frailong, Los Altos, CA (US);
Jeffrey G. Libby, Cupertino, CA (US);
Anurag P. Gupta, Saratoga, CA (US);
John Keen, Mountain View, CA (US);
Rajesh Nair, Fremont, CA (US);
Avanindra Godbole, San Jose, CA (US);
Sharada Yeluri, San Jose, CA (US);
Jean-Marc Frailong, Los Altos, CA (US);
Jeffrey G. Libby, Cupertino, CA (US);
Anurag P. Gupta, Saratoga, CA (US);
John Keen, Mountain View, CA (US);
Rajesh Nair, Fremont, CA (US);
Avanindra Godbole, San Jose, CA (US);
Sharada Yeluri, San Jose, CA (US);
Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems consistent with the present invention provide efficient packet replication in a router in order to multicast a stream of data. Packets are replicated and processed in a multithreaded environment. Embodiments consistent with the present invention implement a two-stage process for packet replication. The first stage thread will recirculate the packet to multiple second-stage threads. These second-stage threads will then create one or more outgoing copies of the packet. In this way, the copies are handled by multiple threads running in parallel.