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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2016
At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);
Brad Ree, Cumming, GA (US);
AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
The reduction of multicast traffic collisions is facilitated. A device that is associated with a multicast group receives a multicast message requesting re-transmission of an acknowledgment message from the device. The multicast message includes information identifying the device within the multicast group of devices. In response to the device being determined to be identified by the information, the acknowledgement message can be re-transmitted after a defined transmit delay period after receipt of the multicast message. The defined transmit delay period can be based on the number of devices in the multicast group, based on the number of previous re-transmissions by the device and/or based on the number of devices for which re-transmission is requested.