Patent ID: 11956306
Assignee: NVIDIA CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 11:
12. A non-transitory machine-readable medium having stored thereon instructions which, in response to execution by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to at least:
receive, at a network device, first network data associated with a multicast operation to be collectively performed by at least a plurality of endpoints;
reserve resources of the network device to process second network data to be received from the plurality of endpoints, wherein resources to reserve are determined based, at least in part, on information obtained from the first network data;
send the first network data to a plurality of additional network devices, the plurality of additional network devices identified based at least in part on the information obtained from the first network data;
receive the second network data; and
process the second network data using the reserved resources.