US Patent Issued to Juniper Networks on Dec. 30 for "Bit index explicit replication (BIER) advertising with a route distinguisher" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,078, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Bit index explicit replication (BIER) advertising with a route distinguisher" was invented by Zhaohui Zhang (Westford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a network device may determine a route distinguisher (RD) that is associated with a bit index explicit replication (BIER) domain, wherein the network device participates in the BIER domain and one or more BIER sub-domains of the BIER domain. The network device may identify BIER sub-domain information associated with a BIER sub-domain of the one or more BIER sub-domains of t...