US Patent Issued to Ruckus IP Holdings on Oct. 21 for "Methods and devices for replicating multicast control packets in hardware" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,162, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Ruckus IP Holdings LLC (Claremont, N.C.).

"Methods and devices for replicating multicast control packets in hardware" was invented by Mohammad Nasir Ahmed (Bangalore, India) and Sridhar Malarouthu (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for performing replication of multicast control packets by a packet processor of a networking device, rather than a central processor of the networking device, thereby freeing the central processor to perform other tasks. For example, methods of performing replication of multicast control packets may include learning, by ...