Network-Based Service for the Repair of IP Multicast Sessions

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14993357

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A system and method are disclosed for the repair of IP multicast sessions. A repair server polls multiple transmit servers to accumulate as many of the packets missing from the multicast session as possible. A network includes a source of multicast packets in a multicast session and a plurality of multicast recipients in that session. A repair server in the network provides the packets it receives to the recipients. The repair server includes a missing packet detector. There is a plurality of retransmit servers in the network buffering portions of the packets they respectively receive during the session. The repair server maintains an ordered list of the retransmit servers that are most likely to have buffered copies of packets missing from the session. When the repair server detects that there are packets missing from the session it has received, it uses the ordered list to sequentially request the missing packets from respective ones of the plurality of retransmit servers.

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AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY II L P675 W PEACHTREE STREET ATLANTA GA 30308

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Maxemchuk, Nicholas Frank Mountainside, US 14 541
McManamon, David Dayton, US 8 139
Shur, David Hilton Aberdeen, US 43 3536
Zelezniak, Aleksandr Morganville, US 46 1430

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