US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on July 8 for "Enhanced multicast traceroute to receive inline failure reply" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,663, issued on July 8, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Enhanced multicast traceroute to receive inline failure reply" was invented by Mankamana Prasad Mishra (San Jose, Calif.), Anuj Budhiraja (San Jose, Calif.), Sridhar Santhanam (Dublin, Calif.) and Sunil Krishnan K (Kannur, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method by a router in a multicast network includes receiving a multicast trace query comprising a data packet, editing the multicast trace query to include data corresponding to the data packet, transmitting the edited multicast trace query to a subsequent router, transmitting a...