US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Nov. 11 for "Multicast in-band telemetry system and method" (California, Texas, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,471, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Multicast in-band telemetry system and method" was invented by Mankamana Prasad Mishra (San Jose, Calif.), Praveen Bhagwatula (Cary, N.C.), Nitin Kumar (San Jose, Calif.) and Krishnaswamy Ananthamurthy (Leander, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In-band network telemetry for multicast is provided by injecting a synthetic telemetry packet into the multicast. Each first node of each branch replicates the synthetic packet and passes on copy to the next branch and sends one copy down the nodes in the branch sequentially. The synthetic telemetry packet c...