US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Feb. 25 for "Designated forwarder selection for multihomed hosts in an ethernet virtual private network" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,238,005, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Designated forwarder selection for multihomed hosts in an ethernet virtual private network" was invented by Putu H. Subagio (Cupertino, Calif.), Ravikanth Nasika (Fremont, Calif.), Saikat Bhattacharya (San Francisco) and Chih-Tsung Huang (Burlingame, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments for handling multidestination traffic in a network are described. It is determined that a destination of a packet, received at a network device, is a multihomed destination. In response to determining that the destination of the packet is a multihomed desti...