Patent ID: 9729337
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04L

Claim:
1. A method of handling a Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) traffic in an access point (AP) connected to a digital network comprising: receiving, by the AP, an MLD Query directed to at least one client of the AP; applying per-client filtering rules to the received MLD Query and only processing the received MLD Query if allowed by the filtering rules; converting, by the AP, the MLD Query, from multicast to unicast form; marking the converted MLD Query as high priority prior to sending the converted MLD Query; and sending, by the AP, the converted MLD Query to the at least one client as a unicast packet; wherein the converting of the MLD Query from multicast to unicast form includes converting the MLD Query to an MLDv1 Query by clearing the multicast address list.