US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Nov. 18 for "Constraint-based underlay tree allocation for data centers" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,899, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Constraint-based underlay tree allocation for data centers" was invented by Mankamana Prasad Mishra (San Jose, Calif.), Lukas Krattiger (The Woodlands, Texas), Shyam Nayan Kapadia (San Jose, Calif.) and Nitin Kumar (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example method, a head node connected to a source device transmits a multicast data flow from the source device to receiving devices connected to tail nodes using Default MDT. The example method further includes determining that requirements have been met to begin transmitting the multic...