Patent ID: 7986702
Filing Date: 2011-07-26
Classification: H04H,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for a customer-premises equipment (CPE) gateway, the method comprising: receiving, by the CPE gateway, a first Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) compliant command; generating by the CPE gateway, in response to the first IGMP compliant command, a unicast command that instructs a multimedia server to generate a unicast media stream; wherein the generating comprises concealing multicast information from at least one IGMP compliant entity that follows the CPE gateway; and transmitting, by the CPE gateway, the unicast command to the at least one IGMP compliant entity; wherein the unicast command passes through the at least one IGMP compliant entity and reaches the multimedia server; wherein the receiving of the first compliant IGMP compliant command comprises receiving the first IGMP compliant command that pertains to a switching from a first multicast media stream to a second multicast media stream; wherein the method further comprises: