Patent ID: 7768945

Claim:
A method for accessing broadband video service, comprising: determining, by an access apparatus, a port of the access apparatus, wherein the port receives a video program request carrying a requested multicast program IP address; determining, by the access apparatus, an authority number corresponding to the port according to preset relations between ports of the access apparatus and authority numbers; determining, by the access apparatus, a permissible program list corresponding to the determined authority number according to preset relations between authority numbers and permissible program lists; obtaining, by the access apparatus, from the permissible program list, program numbers of video programs that a service user occupying the port has authority to access; determining, by the access apparatus, multicast program IP addresses corresponding to the program numbers; and requesting, by the access apparatus, a video flow from the requested multicast program IP address when the requested multicast program IP address is in the multicast program IP addresses corresponding to the program numbers.