Patent ID: 7079495
Filing Date: 2006-07-18
Classification: H04L,H04M

Abstract:
1. A method for enabling a multicast telecommunication session, comprising: receiving a call initiation request indicating a desire to create a communication link between a multicast telephony device and a unicast telephony device; determining that the unicast telephony device is incapable of receiving multicast media streaming; generating a virtual multicast intermediary in response to determining that the unicast telephony device is incapable of receiving multicast media streaming; receiving multicast media streaming sent to a multicast group address from a plurality of multicast telephony devices at the virtual multicast intermediary; sorting, at the virtual multicast intermediary, the multicast media streaming sent to the multicast group address from the plurality of multicast telephony devices into individual streams based on the telephony devices that originated each stream; communicating, from the virtual multicast intermediary, the sorted media streaming to a unicast telephony device to enable the unicast telephony device to participate in a multicast telecommunication session; and indicating to the unicast telephony device that the individual media streams of the sorted media streaming originated from different multicast telephony devices.