Patent ID: 8559353

Claim:
A home gateway comprising a Quality of Service (QoS) module for use in a home network that comprises a plurality of devices and the home gateway, said home gateway being enabled to receive a multicast stream and to forward said multicast stream to at least one of said devices under control of a multicast proxy module, wherein said QoS module comprises: said multicast proxy module configured to: send, upon reception of a multicast join message from one of said devices for joining said multicast stream, a QoS request comprising an address of said home gateway and an address of said device, said QoS request further comprising a reference to said multicast stream, and store in a multicast membership database said address of said device in association with said reference to said multicast stream; a unicast QoS control module configured to: receive said QoS request, and send a unicast QoS event message for requesting thereby provision of QoS for said multicast stream when being forwarded from said home gateway to said device, said unicast QoS module further comprising a look-up table configured to look-up an associated QoS class in its look-up table based upon said reference to said multicast stream.