Patent ID: 9054911
Filing Date: 2015-06-09
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A system, comprising: a router, including a processor and memory, configured to: receive at least one multicast stream from a content source in response to communicating an initial request to the content source; receive membership reports from a set of advertising components, wherein the membership reports provide respective statuses indicating whether load balancer components of a plurality load balancer components are operable to receive and process the at least one multicast stream, and respective advertising components are distinct from and associated with subsets comprising two or more of the load balancer components; open respective first communication tunnels to load balancer components having respective statuses indicative of being operable to receive and process the at least one multicast stream; communicate, via the first communication tunnels, the at least one multicast stream to the load balancer components having respective statuses indicative of being operable to receive and process the at least one multicast stream; wherein the respective first communication tunnels have floating end points configured to be shifted by a load balancer component to which a first communication tunnel ends to the router; and terminate the first communication tunnel in response to a shift of a floating end point of the first communication tunnel to the router by the load balancer component.