US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Sept. 16 for "End-to-end dynamic multicast-only fast re-route (MoFRR)" (Belgian, American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,472, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"End-to-end dynamic multicast-only fast re-route (MoFRR)" was invented by Mankamana Prasad Mishra (San Jose, Calif.), Nitin Kumar (San Jose, Calif.), Luc De Ghein (Deinze, Belgium), Anuj Budhiraja (San Jose, Calif.) and Vinish Ramachandran (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some aspects, a method for establishing a multicast-only Fast Re-Route (FRR) (MoFRR) path between a source node and a receiving node in a network, the method includes receiving, by a merged receiving node, a plurality of data packets in a data flow comprising an FR...