Patent ID: 8902889
Filing Date: 2014-12-02
Classification: H04L,H04Q

Abstract:
1. A method for supporting multicast services or broadcast services, said method being performed in a decentralized communication device connected to a network access device, a Multicast-Server or Broadcast-Server and at least one of a customer premises equipment; said method comprising the following steps: receiving a request from a customer premises equipment, said request being a request for a Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet (PPPoE) session between the customer premises equipment and a network access device; capturing said request to generate a first PPPoE session between the customer premises equipment and the decentralized communication device and a second PPPoE session between the decentralized communication device and the network access device; linking said first and second PPPoE session such that data packets are forwarded transparently from the first session to the second session and vice versa; analyzing control data packets received from the customer premises equipment and addressed to the network access device or to the Multicast-Server or Broadcast-Server in order to evaluate information used by a subscriber of the customer premises equipment to select particular multicast traffic or broadcast traffic; forwarding said control data packets via said second PPPoE session to the network access device or to the Multicast-Server or Broadcast-Server; and injecting the particular multicast traffic or broadcast traffic selected by the subscriber of the customer premises equipment into the first PPPoE session.