ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,231, issued on April 29, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Weighted multicast join load balance" was invented by Vinod Kumar N (Bangalore, India), Robert W. Kebler (Newburyport, Mass.), Ashok Patrick Jude Manoharan (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Hariharan Boopathy (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a method includes receiving, by an egress network device for a network, messages from each of a plurality of ingress network devices for the network, wherein each of the messages specifies a multicast source, a multicast group, and an upstream multicast hop weight value for multicast traff...