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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 04, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2013
Applicant:
Alcatel-lucent Usa Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Inventors:
Jayant Kotalwar, Cupertino, CA (US);
Jaishal Shah, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/18 (2006.01); H04L 12/703 (2013.01); H04L 12/721 (2013.01); H04L 12/707 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/28 (2013.01); H04L 12/1863 (2013.01); H04L 45/12 (2013.01); H04L 45/22 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system, method and apparatus for adapting operation of a router configured to receive commonly sourced traffic via primary and secondary Upstream Multicast Hop (UMH) links, wherein the secondary path is cached for a predetermined period of time to avoid data loss upon restoration of the primary path.