English to French Tech/Engineering Patents method of distributing a plurality of multicast streams to a plurality of hosts

wherein a first multicast request is selected from a group consisting of an Internet Group Management Protocol report, a Protocol Independent Multicast join, and a Multicast Listener Directory report.



each of the plurality of hosts is adapted to transmit a multicast request that requests to join one of a plurality of multicast streams
and each of the plurality of multicast requests includes a type code that indicates a type of the requested multicast stream;