Appeal No. 97-1265
Application 07/981,274
The disclosed invention pertains to a network of
computers in which at least one transmitter or server computer
is connected to a plurality of remote receiver or client
computers. More particularly, the invention is directed to
the selection and assignment of a multicast address to a
particular data stream to be sent over the network.
Representative claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. In a network of computers interconnected by a network
structure including a plurality of multicast addresses, and at
least one transmitter computer for transmitting at least one
data stream over the network structure to a plurality of
remote receiver computers, a method of transmitting a data
stream to a dynamically assigned multicast address, comprising
the steps of:
selecting a multicast address that is not being used by
any computer on the network;
assigning the selected multicast address to the data
stream; and
transmitting the data stream from the at least one
transmitter computer to the assigned multicast address for
receipt by the receiver computers.
The examiner relies on the following references:
Perlman 5,079,767 Jan. 07, 1992
Cree et al. (Cree) 5,276,442 Jan. 04, 1994
(filed Feb. 22,
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