Patent ID: 8185657
Filing Date: 2012-05-22
Classification: H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A client management device comprising: reading unit to read information relating to a multicast data forwarding process; storage unit to store forward management information based on the information read by said reading unit, wherein the forward management information includes correspondence between an address of a client to which multicast data should be forwarded and a destination address of the multicast data; data generating unit to identify, based on the forward management information stored in said storage unit, one or more clients, each of which corresponds to a forward destination of the multicast data, and generating the same number of pieces of unicast data as the number of identified clients, from the multicast data; managing unit to reflect, in case the information read by said reading unit is participation information indicating a participation in a multicast group, contents of the participation information to the forward management information stored in said storage unit, and for deleting, in case the information read by said reading unit is leaving information that indicates leaving from the multicast group, information relating to the client as a sender of the leaving information form the forward management information; and client management information storage unit to storing client management information based on the forward management information, wherein the client management information include a client identifier indicating the client to which the multicast data should be forwarded, a destination identifier indicating a transmission destination of the multicast data, a time when relationship between the client and the transmission destination of the multicast data have been stored in the forward management information, and a time when the relationship have been deleted from the forward management information.