US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on Jan. 28 for "Systems and methods for preventing solicited-node multicast address collisions" (French, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,427, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for preventing solicited-node multicast address collisions" was invented by Pascal Thubert (Roquefort-les-Pins, France), Eric M. Levy-Abegnoli (Valbonne, France), Patrick M. P. Wetterwald (Mouans Sartoux, France) and Ratko Kovacina (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving, at a first edge node, an Internet Protocol (IP) multicast address of a first silent host node. The method further includes receiving, at a second edge node, an IP multicast address of a second silent host node. The IP multicast address of...