Patent ID: 11910293
Assignee: CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING, LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  Y | IPC H

Claim 10:
11. The method of claim 1, wherein for each multicast session a selected set of gateways numbered among all reachable gateways is determined in accordance with the following equation, where Fi is a value of a factor i, Wi is a weight given to a factor i, GWk is a favorability/cost metric of a gateway k, and p is a subset of gateways among all reachable gateways which can be used to reach all target end devices:, ∑
   
    k
    =
    1
   
   
    k
    =
    p
   
  
  
   
    ∑
    
     i
     =
     1
    
    
     i
     =
     n
    
   
   
    G
    ⁢
    W
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    *
    
     
      (
      
       Fi
       ×
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     .