CA2240687A1 - Method for managing multicast addresses for transmitting and receiving multimedia conferencing information on an internet protocol (ip) network implemented over an atm network - Google Patents

Method for managing multicast addresses for transmitting and receiving multimedia conferencing information on an internet protocol (ip) network implemented over an atm network

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CA2240687A1
CA2240687A1 CA002240687A CA2240687A CA2240687A1 CA 2240687 A1 CA2240687 A1 CA 2240687A1 CA 002240687 A CA002240687 A CA 002240687A CA 2240687 A CA2240687 A CA 2240687A CA 2240687 A1 CA2240687 A1 CA 2240687A1
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Antonio Desimone
Joseph Golan
Ashok K. Kuthyar
Bryant Richard Parent
Ram S. Ramaurthy
David Hilton Shur
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    • H04L61/5069—Address allocation for group communication, multicast communication or broadcast communication
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    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L69/00—Network arrangements, protocols or services independent of the application payload and not provided for in the other groups of this subclass
    • H04L69/16—Implementation or adaptation of Internet protocol [IP], of transmission control protocol [TCP] or of user datagram protocol [UDP]
    • H04L69/168—Implementation or adaptation of Internet protocol [IP], of transmission control protocol [TCP] or of user datagram protocol [UDP] specially adapted for link layer protocols, e.g. asynchronous transfer mode [ATM], synchronous optical network [SONET] or point-to-point protocol [PPP]
    • H—ELECTRICITY
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    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
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    • H04L2101/00—Indexing scheme associated with group H04L61/00
    • H04L2101/60—Types of network addresses
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    • H04L61/45—Network directories; Name-to-address mapping
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    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L69/00—Network arrangements, protocols or services independent of the application payload and not provided for in the other groups of this subclass
    • H04L69/16—Implementation or adaptation of Internet protocol [IP], of transmission control protocol [TCP] or of user datagram protocol [UDP]

Abstract

In a multicast capable IP network implemented over an ATM network, each client terminal on a multimedia conference, for each media type it transmits, is assigned a multicast IP address and a port number (together known as a socket) on which to transmit packets, wherein each assigned multicast IP address is unique and different than the multicast IP address assigned to any other client for any media type. Each client terminal then selects, for each media type, which clients on the conference it wants to receive packets from. Only packets that are in fact requested by a client are routed over the multicast IP network to the requesting client. A single special purpose Multicast Address Resolution System (MARS) server is associated with the conference when the conference is established. Each client terminal uses that MARS server, whether on the same or different IP
sub-networks, but on a common ATM network, for purposes of mapping the multicast IP addresses used in the conference into a set of unicast ATM
endpoint addresses used by the ATM-connected client terminals. Similarly, when a specific conference uses a Multicast Server, a single special purpose Multicast Server is used for all clients on the conference, whether on the same or different IP sub-networks, for purposes of establishing point-to-multipoint ATM connections to the conference endpoints.
CA002240687A 1997-06-24 1998-06-15 Method for managing multicast addresses for transmitting and receiving multimedia conferencing information on an internet protocol (ip) network implemented over an atm network Expired - Fee Related CA2240687C (en)

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