ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,125, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).
"Enhanced multicast tracing with latency detection" was invented by Tathagata Nandy (Bangalore, India) and Chethan Chavadibagilu Radhakrishnabhat (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multicast tracing system for a network is provided. During operation, the system can identify, at a network device in the network, a join request and a data packet of a multicast group received at the network device. The system can determine respective timestamps indicating the arrival and departure of the join request and the data packet. The...