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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:
Apr. 27, 2004
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Nokia Corporation, , FI;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/228 ; H04L 1/256 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/228 ; H04L 1/256 ;
Abstract
The present invention provides methods and apparatus for filtering a broadcast data stream that can support data flow, e.g. IPv6 packets. The present invention utilizes common filtering for packet segments that are common among IPv6 packets. Segments that are not common are separately filtered. A set of rules is applied to the filtered segments in order to determine whether corresponding packets should be subsequently processed. The present invention is applicable to numerous application including MPEG multicast services.