US Patent Issued to Futurewei Technologies on Dec. 16 for "SDN facilitated multicast in data center" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,788, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Futurewei Technologies Inc..

"SDN facilitated multicast in data center" was invented by Linda Dunbar (Plano, Texas) and Michael McBride (Laguna Niguel, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method implemented by a controller in a software defined network (SDN), the method comprising sending, to an overlay edge node, a query message comprising a client specific multicast address, receiving, from the overlay edge node, one or more report messages corresponding to the query message, wherein each of the one or more report messages comprises an address of each of one or more virtual machines (VMs)...