MUMBAI, India, Oct. 5 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202541031632 A) filed by Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development Lp on March 31, 2025, for Programming Multicast Forwarding Entries In An Overlay Network.
Inventors include Nandy, Tathagata; Radhakrishnabhat, Chethan Chavadibagilu; A S, Pramod Kumar; Raj, Anil; and Lohar, Somnath Bhimaram.
The application for the patent was published on October 02, 2026, under issue no. 40/2026.
Abstract: PROGRAMMING MULTICAST FORWARDING ENTRIES IN AN OVERLAY NETWORK A first network device in an overlay network can receive a notification message indicating that a host reachable via a second network device joined a multicast group. The notification message can be received via a first tunnel between the first and second network devices in the first overlay network. The first network device can determine whether it is a distributor of multicast traffic in the first overlay network. If the first network device is the distributor, the first network device can program the forwarding hardware of the first network device with a first multicast forwarding entry for the multicast group based on the notification message. The first network device can then receive the multicast traffic of the multicast group over a second tunnel from a third network device and forward the multicast traffic over the first tunnel to the second network device based on the first multicast forwarding entry. [Fig.1]
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