18952980. SWITCH CONTROLLER, SENDING CONTROLLER AND METHODS FOR USE IN SWITCH CONTROLLER AND SENDING CONTROLLER (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.)
SWITCH CONTROLLER, SENDING CONTROLLER AND METHODS FOR USE IN SWITCH CONTROLLER AND SENDING CONTROLLER
Organization Name
Inventor(s)
Reuven Cohen of Hod Hasharon IL
Ben-Shahar Belkar of Hod Hasharon IL
Tal Mizrahi of Hod Hasharon IL
Amir Roitshtein of Hod Hasharon IL
SWITCH CONTROLLER, SENDING CONTROLLER AND METHODS FOR USE IN SWITCH CONTROLLER AND SENDING CONTROLLER
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18952980 titled 'SWITCH CONTROLLER, SENDING CONTROLLER AND METHODS FOR USE IN SWITCH CONTROLLER AND SENDING CONTROLLER
Original Abstract Submitted
A switch controller, where the switch controller includes a processor that is configured to: receive a multicast packet from a sender, where the multicast packet includes a header and a payload, determine that an attempt to forward the multicast packet through one or more ports fails for at least one of the one or more ports, determine that a header-forwarding bit in the header is set, and send the header of the multicast packet to the sender.
