Patent ID: 8102849

Claim:
A method for establishing an association for a transmission of layered multimedia content to at least one multicast group in a communication system, the method comprising the steps of: a) providing an intent to associate between a host and at least one client, the intent to associate comprising host and client association capabilities and client device capability information, the client device capability information comprising client display capabilities and client decoding capabilities; b) sending an association confirm message by the host comprising selected association capabilities, a base multicast address, and at least one selected additional multicast address for additional layers of the multicast content according to the client device capability information; c) subscribing to the base multicast address and the at least one selected additional multicast address by the host and at least one client; d) sending an association confirm message by the at least one client comprising the subscribed multicast addresses; and e) transmitting the layered multimedia content to the at least one multicast group via the at least one selected additional multicast address.