Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Multicast in a trill network
- Patent Title (中): 组播网络中的组播
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Application No.: US13351513Application Date: 2012-01-17
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Publication No.: US09407533B2Publication Date: 2016-08-02
- Inventor: Nagarajan Venkatesan , Anoop Ghanwani , Shunjia Yu , Phanidhar Koganti , Rajiv Krishnamurthy
- Applicant: Nagarajan Venkatesan , Anoop Ghanwani , Shunjia Yu , Phanidhar Koganti , Rajiv Krishnamurthy
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: BROCADE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, INC.
- Current Assignee: BROCADE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agency: Park, Vaughan, Fleming & Dowler LLP
- Agent Shun Yao
- Main IPC: H04L12/761
- IPC: H04L12/761 ; H04L12/46 ; H04L12/721 ; H04L12/18

Abstract:
One embodiment of the present invention provides a switch. A switch includes a storage and a multicast management mechanism. The storage is configured to store an entry indicating a multicast group membership learned at a remote switch. The multicast management mechanism is coupled to the storage and is configured to suppress flooding of packets destined for the multicast group.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130003733A1 MULTICAST IN A TRILL NETWORK Public/Granted day:2013-01-03
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