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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 20, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2010
Kunal Shah, Mountain View, CA (US);
Avoy Nanda, Milpitas, CA (US);
Kunal Shah, Mountain View, CA (US);
Avoy Nanda, Milpitas, CA (US);
Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ), Stockholm, SE;
Abstract
A multicast router is coupled with a multicast enabled layer 2 device that is coupled with a source of multicast data traffic for multicast groups. Responsive to determining that the amount of bandwidth currently being attributed as being used by the subscriber exceeds its allowed bandwidth limit due to oversubscription of multicast groups, the multicast router switches from periodically transmitting multicast membership general query messages to the multicast hosts of the subscriber, to transmitting one or more multicast membership group-specific query messages to one or more multicast hosts of the subscriber for a subset of the subscribed multicast groups to impede the subscribed multicast groups that are not part of the subset from being refreshed to cause the multicast data traffic for those multicast groups from being transmitted on the access network to the multicast hosts of the subscriber.