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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2005
Applicants:
Akira Okubo, Tokyo, JP;
Kouichi Ishibashi, Tokyo, JP;
Masahiro Kuroda, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignees:
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04L 12/56 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
When an apparatus located at an edge of a network transmits a report message in a multicast procedure transmitted from a mobile terminal to a gateway switch, the apparatus snoops the report message and transmits an entry update request frame for causing an entry forming a transfer route for multicast to be learned in a direction of the gateway switch. The gateway switch transfers the received report message to a port to which an IP multicast router is connected after the transfer router for multicast is formed.