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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 22, 2012
Applicant:
Smiths Detection Inc., Warren, NJ (US);
Inventor:
Jonathan Hilton Cooper, Newport, RI (US);
Assignee:
Smiths Detection Inc., Warren, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06F 15/173 (2006.01); H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04L 12/18 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 65/60 (2013.01); H04L 12/185 (2013.01); H04L 65/4076 (2013.01); H04L 29/06027 (2013.01); H04L 65/4084 (2013.01);
Abstract
A server in connection with a plurality of multimedia sources that has a plurality of clients. The server determines if at least one of the clients is requesting to receive at least one of the sources. The server then multicasts these requested sources to the requesting clients, respectively. If none of the clients is requesting a particular source, the server does not multicast that particular source. If all of the clients cease requesting a particular source that the server is currently multicasting, the server terminates the multicast of that particular source.