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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 21, 2010
Larus B. Maxwell, Raleigh, NC (US);
Larus B. Maxwell, Raleigh, NC (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment a method includes receiving at an interface a join request for a multicast data stream, determining whether the multicast data stream is presently being transmitted within a same Downlink Broadcast Domain of which the interface is a member, and based on a result of the determining step one of (i) adding an identifier of the interface to an Outgoing Interface List when the multicast data stream is not presently being transmitted within a same Downlink Broadcast Domain of which the interface is a member or (ii) adding the identifier of the interface to a Candidate Outgoing Interface List when the multicast data stream is presently being transmitted within a same Downlink Broadcast Domain of which the interface is a member.