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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2016

Filed:

Nov. 14, 2013
Applicant:

Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Deepak Dayama, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Raghava Sivaramu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Dhananjaya Rao, Milpitas, CA (US);

Nataraj Bacthu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:

Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04L 12/18 (2006.01); H04L 12/54 (2013.01); H04L 12/761 (2013.01); H04L 12/753 (2013.01); H04L 12/933 (2013.01); H04L 12/931 (2013.01); H04L 12/947 (2013.01); H04L 12/46 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/185 (2013.01); H04L 12/1886 (2013.01); H04L 12/5601 (2013.01); H04L 45/16 (2013.01); H04L 45/48 (2013.01); H04L 49/1569 (2013.01); H04L 49/203 (2013.01); H04L 49/256 (2013.01); H04L 12/4675 (2013.01);
Abstract

Techniques are provided for optimizing multicast routing in a network. At a router device, a message is sent to one or more physical devices. The message is configured to solicit a response indicating a network assignment for each of the physical devices. A response message is received from each of the physical devices. The response message comprises network assignment information for each of the physical devices. For each of the physical devices, the network assignment information is translated into a segment identifier. The segment identifier is distributed to other router devices in the network.


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