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METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR COLLECTION, TRACKING, AND DISPLAY OF NEAR REAL TIME MULTICAST DATA

  • US 20100050084A1
  • Filed: 08/20/2008
  • Published: 02/25/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/20/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-based method for depicting the participating devices of a multicast group based on the transmit and the receive activities of the devices in a computer network, said method comprising:

  • extracting, from a database, a single instance of each unique packet header associated with a plurality of multicast packets, the multicast packets having been transmitted across the computer network over a predefined period of time;

    calculating a number of bytes transferred for each source internet protocol (IP) to destination IP multicast tuple from the extracted packets;

    determining a location of the source IP address and a bandwidth associated with the source IP address from the extracted packets;

    determining a location of the devices subscribing to the packets and a bandwidth associated with each of the destination sites; and

    providing a display of all multicast traffic, wherein the multicast traffic is summarized in a user selectable list.

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