ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,509, issued on March 4, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"PIM proxy over EVPN fabric" was invented by Mankamana Prasad Mishra (San Jose, Calif.), Nitin Kumar (San Jose, Calif.), Ali Sajassi (Alamo, Calif.) and Swadesh Agrawal (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and associated methods provide solutions for reducing a volume of traffic through a multicast network attributed to repeated maintenance messages, which are required in order to maintain a multicast connection. The system configures provider edge devices to generate and send maintenance messages on behalf of members of a multicast ...