US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on June 10 for "Technique for dynamic discovery, update and propagation of multicast stream capabilities in a capability-aware network" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,250, issued on June 10, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Technique for dynamic discovery, update and propagation of multicast stream capabilities in a capability-aware network" was invented by Francisco Meo (San Jose, Calif.), Stig Ingvar Venaas (Oakland, Calif.) and Rahul Savarapu Parameswaran (Union City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods provide for the dynamic discovery, update and propagation of multicast streams capabilities in a network. An endpoint can be coupled to a first hop router in a network environment. The first hop router can discover multicast flow characteristics in...