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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2011
Filed:
Nov. 16, 2005
Lee Michel Breslau, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Christopher J. Chase, Austin, TX (US);
William Christopher Fenner, Woodside, CA (US);
Subhabrata Sen, New Providence, NJ (US);
Lee Michel Breslau, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Christopher J. Chase, Austin, TX (US);
William Christopher Fenner, Woodside, CA (US);
Subhabrata Sen, New Providence, NJ (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property II, LP, Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
Certain exemplary embodiments provide a method that can comprise establishing a tunnel between a monitor and at least one router; sending a message to join a multicast transmission; and/or transmitting a packet via the tunnel to a router. The packet can comprise a source address of the network monitor and a destination address comprising a multicast address.