US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on June 17 for "Multicast path traces" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,133, issued on June 17, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Multicast path traces" was invented by Mankamana Prasad Mishra (San Jose, Calif.), Lukas Krattiger (The Woodlands, Texas) and Nitin Kumar (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a device may receive a multicast path trace request for a multicast tree, wherein the device is a mid-node in the multicast tree. The device may perform, based on the device being a mid-node in the multicast tree, an upstream trace of network topology of the multicast tree from the device to a head-node of the multicast tree and a downstream trace of...