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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2009
Applicants:
Elisa Bellagamba, Stockholm, SE;
Benoit Tremblay, Laval, CA;
Richard Tremblay, Rosemere, CA;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ), Stockholm, SE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention relates to network nodes and methods that use an encoding scheme for encoding a point-to-multipoint traffic path from one ingress node to a plurality of egress nodes in, for example, a Multi-Protocol Label Switching network. According to the encoding scheme a so-called common ERO is used. The common ERO specifies a list consisting of nodes that are common to several sub paths in order to provide a compression mechanism that reduces the size of path messages that are used for signaling the point-to-multipoint traffic path.