System and method for efficient delivery of multi-unicast communication traffic

摘要

Disclosed is a system and method for the delivery of multi-unicast communication traffic. A multimedia router is adapted to analyze and identify contents which it handles and one or more access nodes are adapted to receive one or more of the identified contents, cache contents based on said identification; and use cached contents as substitutes for redundant traffic, received by the same access node.

主权项

1. An apparatus associated with a data access point, said apparatus comprising:
first communication circuitry adapted to communicate with each of a set of data client devices; a communication module adapted to receive a data stream addressed to a first data client device; a data stream generator adapted to generate a data stream addressed to a second data client device, wherein the generated data stream is at least partially based on the data stream addressed to the first data client device; andcontrol logic adapted to (1) detect when the second data client device requests redundant content, wherein redundant content is content that is already cached locally at the access point or content previously requested by the first data client device and (2) adapted to trigger said stream generator in response to the detection; andwherein said control logic is adapted to signal an associated network element to halt transmission of a stream including the redundant content and addressed to the second data client device.