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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2002
Filed:
Oct. 09, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Edward Dean Willis, Plano, TX (US);
Assignee:
MCI Communications Corporation, Washington, DC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/526 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/526 ;
Abstract
A method of and system for transmitting multicast packets unidirectionally from a transmitter of a source network to a receiver of a client network and unicast packets bidirectionally between the source network and the client network by configuring a selected router of the client network to accept multicast packets from the receiver, establishing a virtual connection between the selected router of the client network and a selected router of the source network, and advertising in the client network that the virtual connection is the shortest path from the client network to the source network.