Patent ID: 8457031

Claim:
A system, comprising: an access point (AP) of a wireless AP (WAP) network configured to receive a multicast packet, the multicast packet having a header; the access point configured to identify a single multicast packet recipient of a plurality of multicast packet recipients, the single multicast packet recipient being associated with a client MAC address and being the multicast packet recipient from the plurality of multicast packet recipients that is most recently associated with the access point; the access point configured to add the client MAC address to the header of the multicast packet; the access point configured to multicast, at a first data rate, the multicast packet with the client MAC address to a wireless multicast destination on the WAP network; the access point configured to, if an acknowledgement from the single multicast packet recipient is not received within a time period, multicast, at a second data rate different from the first data rate, the multicast packet with the client MAC address to the wireless multicast destination on the WAP network; and means for receiving at the AP acknowledgement from the single multicast packet recipient associated with the client MAC address.