Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Methods and apparatus for multicasting content
- Patent Title (中): 组播内容的方法和装置
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Application No.: US10659484Application Date: 2003-09-10
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Publication No.: US07376198B2Publication Date: 2008-05-20
- Inventor: Mark Stuart Day
- Applicant: Mark Stuart Day
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agency: Chapin IP Law, LLC
- Agent Barry W. Chapin, Esq.
- Main IPC: H04L27/04
- IPC: H04L27/04 ; H04N7/10

Abstract:
A transmitter device of the content distribution system transmits content portions of a content message to a receiver device using respective multicast channels within a network. In such an arrangement, by using multiple multicast channels for transmission of the content portions forming the content message, the transmitter device limits the ability for an unauthorized user, monitoring a particular multicast channel, to distinguishing the content portions from noise or to retrieve the complete content message from the transmitter device, thereby providing security to the content message. Furthermore, the content distribution system utilizes multicast channels within a network to deliver the content portions to all receiver devices in communication with the network, thereby minimizing the power requirements needed by the transmitter device to deliver the content portions to a receiver device farthest from the transmitter device.
Public/Granted literature
- US20050053119A1 Methods and apparatus for multicasting content Public/Granted day:2005-03-10
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