US Patent Issued to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development on June 24 for "Efficiently forwarding bidirectional multicast traffic at a virtual gateway device" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,684, issued on June 24, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Efficiently forwarding bidirectional multicast traffic at a virtual gateway device" was invented by Tathagata Nandy (Bangalore, India) and Subramanian Muthukumar (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first network device in a network is provided. During operation, the first network device can elect the first network device as a designated forwarder (DF) of multicast traffic in a subnet for a Rendezvous Point (RP) of a multicast group. Here, the first network device can operate in conjunction with a second network device as...