Patents by Inventor Krishnaswamy ANANTHAMURTHY

Krishnaswamy ANANTHAMURTHY has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20190182182
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a first Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) router includes port interfaces to receive multicast traffic from a first network and forward the traffic to at least one receiver, which is in a sub-network including other PIM routers, and a routing processor configured, in response to a decision for the first PIM router to relinquish being a designated router, to generate a PIM Hello message with a first option descriptor and a first priority, the first option descriptor indicating a staggered handoff process, and send the PIM Hello message, receipt of the PIM Hello message by the other PIM routers being operative to result in a designated router election electing a new designated router, the new designated router being operative to initiate the staggered handoff process causing the first PIM router to continue forwarding traffic until the new designated router has built a multicast routing tree.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Inventors: Mankamana MISHRA, Krishnaswamy ANANTHAMURTHY, Stig VENAAS, Rishabh PAREKH, Sameer GULRAJANI