Patent ID: 11888725
Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 19:
20. The non-transitory computer storage media of claim 19, wherein the multicast appliance is configured to:
de-encapsulate the multicast data packet encapsulated as the unicast packet;
create replicas of the multicast data packet for each of a plurality of members;
for each replica of the multicast data packet, encapsulate the multicast data packet into a unicast data packet by:
translating the multicast destination media access control address to a unicast destination media access control access address;
adding an outer encapsulation with a unicast destination IP address associated with a particular member associated with the replica or an underlay unicast IP address; and
sending the unicast data packet for each replica.