Patent ID: 9036462
Filing Date: 2015-05-19
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: receiving, by a protocol independent multicast (PIM) enabled network element (NE), a multicast channel membership query report from a non-PIM enabled client that comprises a quality of service (QoS) provisioned multicast channel request and associated QoS data from the non-PIM enabled client; reserving at least some hardware resources of the PIM enabled NE based on the non-PIM enabled client QoS data to support communication of multicast data via a QoS provisioned multicast channel requested by the QoS provisioned multicast channel request; and forward a PIM join message to an upstream NE to establish a connection to the QoS provisioned multicast channel across a PIM network, wherein the PIM join message comprises PIM enabled NE QoS data based on the non-PIM enabled client QoS data.