ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,985, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Optimized multicast transport migration procedures" was invented by Anuj Budhiraja (San Jose, Calif.), Mankamana Prasad Mishra (San Jose, Calif.) and Rishabh Parekh (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology provides solutions for optimizing communications between nodes and can include receiving, by a first node from a second node, an advertisement indicating an advertisement transport protocol supported by the second node, where the first node supports a plurality of transport protocols, and the advertisement transport proto...