Patent ID: 8611270

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: a wireless transceiver operable for wireless communication with a wireless domain; a communications interface operable for communicating with an associated distribution network; and a controller operatively coupled with the wireless transceiver and the communications interface and operable for controlling operation of the wireless transceiver and the communications interface; wherein the controller maintains a table associating wireless clients with broadcast domains in the wireless domain and for associating the broadcast domains in the wireless domain with multicast flows on the associated distribution network that is used for replicating the multicast flows received from the associated distribution network to send to select corresponding broadcast domains in the wireless domain; wherein the controller obtains from the associated distribution network a profile for a first wireless client comprising data representative of a first broadcast domain in the wireless domain for the first wireless client; wherein the controller creates a dynamic broadcast domain in the wireless domain corresponding to a broadcast domain on the associated distribution network in the profile for the first wireless client responsive to determining that the controller does not have an entry in the table matching the first broadcast domain in the wireless domain corresponding to the broadcast domain on the associated distribution network in the profile for the first wireless client; wherein the controller updates the table to associate the first wireless client with the dynamic broadcast domain in the wireless domain; wherein the controller obtains from the associated distribution network a profile for a second wireless client comprising data representative of a second broadcast domain in the wireless domain for the second wireless client; wherein the controller updates the table to associate the second wireless client with the dynamic broadcast domain in the wireless domain responsive to determining that the controller has the entry in the table for the broadcast domain in the wireless domain corresponding to the broadcast domain on the associated distribution network in the profile for the second wireless client; and, wherein the controller replicates a single multicast flow from the associated distribution network and the replicated multicast flow to the first wireless client and the second wireless client via the dynamic broadcast domain in the wireless domain.