Small group multicast in a computer network

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 7720019
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11342388

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A network packet is encapsulated and has at least one field in the header of the encapsulation. A multicast delivery tree is written into a field of the encapsulating header. A method for operating a router to use the multicast delivery tree encapsulated in the header of the network packet has the following steps. The router receives a packet from a computer network, the packet having an encapsulated field. The router then reads a multicast delivery tree from the encapsulated field, the multicast delivery tree having a route to each of a plurality of destination stations. Then, the router forwards the packet to an address selected in response to the multicast delivery tree.

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  • CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Bion, Joel Saratoga, US 4 159
Farinacci, Dino San Jose, US 46 2878
Shand, Mike Cobham, GB 6 333
Tweedly, Alex Argyll, GB 4 231

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