US 11,888,912 B1
Hybrid static and dynamic multicast configuration for media serving environment
Mankamana Prasad Mishra, San Jose, CA (US); Rajiv Asati, Morrisville, NC (US); Nitin Kumar, San Jose, CA (US); and Luc De Ghein, Deinze (BE)
Assigned to Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on May 4, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/736,637.
Application 17/736,637 is a continuation of application No. 17/220,153, filed on Apr. 1, 2021, granted, now 11,349,891.
Application 17/220,153 is a continuation of application No. 17/195,948, filed on Mar. 9, 2021, abandoned.
Int. Cl. H04L 65/611 (2022.01); H04L 65/60 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 65/611 (2022.05) [H04L 65/60 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of configuring an edge router of a communication provider network, the method comprising:
monitoring amounts of traffic for a plurality of multicast media streams being delivered from media servers, through the communication provider network, to a plurality of media playback devices;
determining that a media stream, of the plurality of media streams, has a respective amount of traffic that is at or above a traffic threshold;
analyzing historical data to determine that the media stream is associated with historical amounts of traffic that are at or above the traffic threshold;
determining to configure the edge router to join a Data-Multicast Data Tree (Data-MDT) associated with the media stream prior to one of the plurality of media playback devices requesting to receive the media stream based at least in part on the media stream being associated with the historical amounts of traffic that are at or above the traffic threshold; and
configuring an edge router of the communication provider network to join the Data-MDT associated with the media stream rather than a Default-MDT based at least in part on the media stream having the respective amount of traffic that is at or above the traffic threshold.