US Patent Issued to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development on Aug. 12 for "Programmable multicast routes on a virtual gateway switch" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,747, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Programmable multicast routes on a virtual gateway switch" was invented by Anil Raj (Bengaluru, India), Tathagata Nandy (Bengaluru, India) and Tamil Esai Somu (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first switch in a network is provided. During operation, the first switch can receive traffic associated with a virtual network address allocated to the first switch and a second switch. The first and second switches can provide high availability to each other. If a layer-3 static multicast route is received at the first switch for...