Patent ID: 9231854
Filing Date: 2016-01-05
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L,H04N

Claim Text:
1. An information processing device, comprising: a multi-core processor including plural cores; a virtual network connecting the plural cores to each other; a network interface; a router function unit configured, in a core of the plural cores, to act as a router between the virtual network and a local network to which the network interface is connected; and a forward processing unit configured, in the core that the router function unit exists, to forward either a multicast packet or a broadcast packet on the virtual network to the local network wherein: the forward processing unit is further configured to identify a core as a source of either the multicast packet or the broadcast packet when the packet is forwarded, and transmit a response packet for the packet to the identified core as a destination of the response packet when the response packet is received from the local network.