US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on Oct. 7 for "Area-specific broadcasting using bit indexed explicit replication" (French, British, Belgian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,741, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Area-specific broadcasting using bit indexed explicit replication" was invented by Ijsbrand Wijnands (Leuven, Belgium), Pierre Pfister (Angers, France), Neale D. R Ranns (Basingstoke, Great Britain), W. Mark Townsley (Paris) and Gregory J. Shepherd (Eugene, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, network devices and computer readable media are disclosed relating to a communication network. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a message comprising a message bit array. The message bit array identifies egress nodes for the message within a bi...