Brocade/Broadcom Assigned Patent

Brocade Communications Systems LLC, San Jose, CA, (acquired by Broadcom Ltd.) has been assigned a patent (10,015,113) developed by Yeung, Wing-Keung Adam, Saratoga, CA, Chadaga, Tejaswini, San Jose, CA, and Sakthivel, Sabarivel, Santa Clara, CA, for “techniques to restore multicast data plane from persistent storage.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “One embodiment of the present invention provides a switch. The switch includes a multicast management module, a storage module, and a recovery module. During operation, the multicast management module represents multicast information from one or more entries of a multicast data structure in a way that the switch can derive its multicast states from the multicast information. The storage module stores the multicast information in a recovery file in a local persistent storage device. If the switch reboots, the recovery module restores the multicast states of the switch from the multicast information in the recovery file.”

The patent application was filed on February 29, 2016 (15/056,791).