Patent ID: 11902148
Assignee: JUNIPER NETWORKS, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 13:
14. The network device of claim 11, wherein the upstream multicast hop weight value comprises a value of either zero or one,
wherein the one or more processors are configured to store, to a database, a number of multicast join messages sent to each of the plurality of ingress network devices, and
wherein the one or more processors being configured to select the one of the plurality of ingress network devices to which to send the given multicast join message comprises the one or more processors being configured to select, based on the database, a least-loaded one of each of the plurality of ingress network devices from which a message is received specifying an upstream multicast hop weight value of one, the least-loaded one currently having been sent a smallest number of multicast join messages.