Patent ID: 7596138

Claim:
A method of transmitting streams of multipoint packets on a first network received according to a multipoint transmission mode from a second network, said multipoint packets being destined for clients of said first network, said method being implemented by an access point, said multipoint transmission mode referring to a layer above a Medium Access Control (MAC) layer, wherein said method comprises the following steps: reception of multipoint packets according to said multipoint transmission mode, from said second network; determining a transmission mode for transmission of said received multipoint packets to clients of said first network from among at least a point-to-point MAC layer transmission mode and a multipoint transmission mode, as a function of a type of stream of said received multipoint packets; and for said received multipoint packets for which said determined transmission mode is point-to-point MAC layer transmission mode, encapsulation of said received multipoint packets in at least one MAC packet and transmission of said at least one MAC packet according to said point-to-point MAC layer transmission mode to at least one of said clients on said first network.