US Patent Issued to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development on Feb. 3 for "Efficient multicast forwarding by shared gateway switch in multi-fabric network" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,734, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Efficient multicast forwarding by shared gateway switch in multi-fabric network" was invented by Tathagata Nandy (Bangalore, India) and Thomas Samuel (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for efficient multicast forwarding at a switch is provided. During operation, the switch can maintain a first tunnel with a first switch in a first overlay tunnel fabric, and a second tunnel with a second switch in a second overlay tunnel fabric. The switch can operate as the gateway for both fabrics. The system can obtain a first fa...