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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:
Dec. 12, 2006
Filed:
Feb. 20, 2002
Applicant:
Haixiang He, Woburn, MA (US);
Inventor:
Haixiang He, Woburn, MA (US);
Assignee:
Nortel Networks Limited, St. Laurent, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/56 (2006.01); H04J 3/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A technique for distributing receiver membership reports containing receiver information for a plurality of multicast source systems in a multicast source notification of interest protocol is disclosed. In one embodiment, the technique is realized by collecting receiver information for a plurality of multicast source systems; aggregating receiver information for each multicast source system into a respective record; indexing each respective record using an IP address of each multicast source system; aggregating the plurality of respective records into a single message; and multicasting the single message to a group address.