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US 7,460,533 B1Granted
System and method for multi-casting announcements
Assignee3Com Corporation
InventorsAnoop Tripathi, Michael D. Homeier
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Abstract
A system and method for multicasting announcements in a communication network. An address is established in a memory. Announcements are formed. The announcements are broadcast on the address.
Claims14
A system of multicasting announcements, the system comprising:
- a caller device;
- a proxy coupled to the caller device;
- an announcement server, the announcement server coupled to the proxy, the announcement server determining when selected announcements will be played to a plurality of addresses in a memory and broadcasting the selected announcements to the addresses in the memory, the announcement server communicating the plurality of addresses to the proxy;
- wherein the proxy communicates an address of the plurality of addresses to the caller device;
- and
- wherein the caller device retrieves an announcement from the address.
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A method of multicasting announcements, the method comprising:
- establishing a plurality of multicast addresses;
- forming a plurality of announcements;
- choosing a first multicast address from the plurality of multicast addresses;
- choosing a first announcement from the plurality of announcements;
- transmitting the first multicast address to a caller device via a proxy;
- determining when the first announcement will be transmitted to the first multicast address;
- and
- transmitting the first announcement to the first multicast address.
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An announcement server comprising:
- means for initiating the multicasting of announcements;
- means for determining a plurality of addresses to multicast the announcements;
- means for determining when the announcements will be transmitted to the addresses;
- means for communicating the plurality of addresses to a proxy, the proxy communicating the plurality of addresses to a caller device;
- and
- means for multicasting the announcements to the plurality of addresses.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.