Scalable IP-services enabled multicast forwarding with efficient resource utilization

RI Balay, G Bhat, G Lockwood… - US Patent 9,319,303, 2016 - Google Patents
Methods, apparatus and data structures are provided for man aging multicast IP flows.
According to one embodiment, a router identifies active multicast IP sessions. A data …

Scalable IP-services enabled multicast forwarding with efficient resource utilization

RI Balay, G Bhat, G Lockwood… - US Patent 9,167,016, 2015 - Google Patents
Methods, apparatus and data structures are provided for man aging multicast IP flows.
According to one embodiment, active multicast IP sessions are identified by a network …

Scalable IP-services enabled multicast forwarding with efficient resource utilization

RI Balay, G Bhat, G Lockwood… - US Patent 10,038,567, 2018 - Google Patents
Methods, apparatus and data structures are provided for managing multicast IP flows.
According to one embodiment, a router identifies active multicast IP sessions. A data …