US Patent Issued to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development on Aug. 5 for "Fast multicast convergence for time synchronization in a network" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,705, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Fast multicast convergence for time synchronization in a network" was invented by Chethan Chavadibagilu Radhakrishnabhat (Bangalore, India), Venkatavaradhan Devarajan (Bangalore, India) and Tathagata Nandy (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for providing fast multicast convergence for Precision Time Protocol (PTP) at a switch is provided. During operation, the system can receive a multicast control message based on a multicast protocol used for PTP from a respective neighbor switch. The multicast control message ca...