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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.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2017

Filed:

Nov. 11, 2015
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Gianluca Gigliarelli, Rome, IT;

Antonio Secomandi, Rome, IT;

Viviana Tripodi, Rome, IT;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/18 (2006.01); H04L 12/923 (2013.01); H04L 12/911 (2013.01); H04L 12/927 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/185 (2013.01); H04L 12/1863 (2013.01); H04L 47/762 (2013.01); H04L 47/806 (2013.01); H04L 47/822 (2013.01); H04L 47/828 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method, computer program product, and system of managing multicast groups for distribution of multicast content to a plurality of targets are provided. Managing multicast groups includes receiving a plurality of requests to join a multicast group sent by the plurality of targets and evaluating from the plurality of requests a resource utilization required for each of the plurality of targets. Managing multicast groups further includes generating the multicast group by accepting targets of the plurality of targets; accumulating each resource utilization corresponding to each accepted target into an accumulated resource utilization; and closing, by the processor, the multicast group when the accumulated resource utilization of the accepted targets exceeds a group resource utilization limit.


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