Patent ID: 7693132

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving at a message re-director a received unicast message containing information and a message type identifier; determining at the message re-director whether the information is to be forwarded as a unicast message or a multicast message using the message type identifier; if the message type identifier indicates that the information is to be forwarded as a multicast message, sending a multicast message from the message re-director containing the information; if the message type identifier indicates that the information is to be forwarded as a unicast message, sending from the message re-director a first other unicast message containing the information; and performing the determining whether the information is to be forwarded as a unicast message or a multicast message using the message type identifier on the basis of whether the message type identifier identifies a unique identifier of a network device, wherein the first other unicast message is sent to the network device if the message type identifier identifies the unique identifier of the network device.