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Multicast filtering

US6175875A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateFeb 27, 1998
Grant dateJan 16, 2001
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Expiry dateFeb 27, 2018

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L49/351
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A repeater for a computer network, and a network incorporating such a repeater are described in which repeater communication addressed to a subset of the devices connected to the repeater are transmitted in a corrupt or scrambled form to other network devices. The processing load is thus reduced for such other network devices, in particular in the context of high volume multicast traffic such as in video conferencing.

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