ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,512, issued on May 6, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Directed broadcast in network fabric" was invented by Kedar Sudhir Karmarkar (San Jose, Calif.), Shyamsundar N. Maniyar (San Jose, Calif.) and Sanjay Kumar Hooda (Pleasanton, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This technology enables directed broadcasts in network fabrics. A control plane node is configured to resolve directed broadcast addresses by mapping the directed broadcast address to a subnet address. A fabric border node receives a directed broadcast, extracts a destination address, and transmits a request to the control plane node to resolve ...