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

Claim 0:
1. A network device, comprising:
at least one processor; and
at least one memory comprising instructions that, in response to execution by the at least one processor, cause the network device to:
receive 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 an amount of resources to reserve is determined based, at least in part, on information obtained from a header of 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 header;
receive the second network data; and
process the second network data using the reserved resources.