ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,368, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).
"Hardware offload of multicast control plane functions" was invented by Tathagata Nandy (Bengaluru, India), Anil Raj (Bengaluru, India) and Priyam De (Bengaluru, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One aspect can provide a system and method for tunnel-based multicasting. During operation, a source-side designated router (DR) coupled to a source device of a multicast group can broadcast a service-advertisement packet and receive a response packet from a client-side DR coupled to one or more client devices within the multicast group. The...