US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on Jan. 28 for "Systems and methods for supporting mixed IGMP querier versions" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,426, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for supporting mixed IGMP querier versions" was invented by Mankamana Prasad Mishra (San Jose, Calif.), Sridhar Santhanam (Dublin, Calif.), Luc Andre Burdet (Quebec, Canada), Prasad Sreedharan Nair (Livermore, Calif.) and Dhananjaya Kasargod Rao (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to some embodiments, an Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN) includes a first router configured as an Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) version 3 querier and a second router configured as an IGMP version 2 querier. The se...