US Patent Issued to Ciena on Feb. 25 for "Prioritizing multicast streams in internet group management protocol (IGMP) networks" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,237,938, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Prioritizing multicast streams in internet group management protocol (IGMP) networks" was invented by Priyanshu Lnu (Meerut, India) and Ashutosh Aggarwal (New Delhi).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for prioritizing multicast streams in an Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) network are provided. According to one implementation, a process, which may be executed by a router, is configured, in response to a reboot scenario, to query a plurality of hosts regarding membership in a plurality of IGMP multicast streams according to predefined priorit...