Patent ID: 9179172
Filing Date: 2015-11-03
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A method for implementing an Internet Protocol (IP) broadband video service, comprising: receiving, from a user terminal by an access device located between the user terminal and a multicast router, a request for demanding a program; checking, by the access device upon receiving the request, at least one right of a user corresponding to the user terminal; when the at least one right corresponding to the user terminal includes a right to demand the program and the user is a first member joining a multicast group that corresponds to the program, performing, by the access device: when the at least one right of a user corresponding to the user terminal includes a right to demand the program and the user is not the first member joining the multicast group that corresponds to the program, performing, by the access device: recording a time for the user terminal joining the multicast group while sending the multicast stream of the program to the user terminal; recording a time for the user terminal leaving the multicast group, and sending a record including the time for the user terminal joining the multicast group and the time for the user terminal leaving the multicast group to a video service support system.