Patent ID: 11956143
Assignee: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 14:
15. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a set of instructions, the set of instructions comprising:
one or more instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a source network device, cause the source network device to:
receive a multicast data stream to be provided to a plurality of network devices of a network;
generate, for the multicast data stream, a segment routing header that identifies the plurality of network devices to be provided the multicast data stream,
wherein the segment routing header includes data identifying the source network device and each of the plurality of network devices,
wherein information identifying a respective network device, of the plurality of network devices, is configured to be removed by the respective network device from the segment routing header without storing the segment routing header and without reconstructing the segment routing header; and

cause the multicast data stream to be serially provided to the plurality of network devices identified in the segment routing header based on each of the plurality of network devices removing the information identifying the respective network device from the segment routing header.