US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Feb. 10 for "Multicast bandwidth utilization and reactive bandwidth control policies" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,404, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Multicast bandwidth utilization and reactive bandwidth control policies" was invented by Mankamana Prasad Mishra (San Jose, Calif.), Lukas Krattiger (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Sameer R Gulrajani (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes generating a visual representation of one or more multicast data trees over a service provider network, each multicast data tree exchanging data between two or more of a plurality of nodes of an entity operating over the service provider network; determining a respective network bandwidth usage ove...