CN101931787B - Method, device and system for controlling multicast programs - Google Patents

Method, device and system for controlling multicast programs Download PDF

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CN101931787B
CN101931787B CN 200910108529 CN200910108529A CN101931787B CN 101931787 B CN101931787 B CN 101931787B CN 200910108529 CN200910108529 CN 200910108529 CN 200910108529 A CN200910108529 A CN 200910108529A CN 101931787 B CN101931787 B CN 101931787B
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The invention discloses a method, a device and a system for controlling multicast programs. The method comprises the following steps of: setting program authority of a set-top-box (STB), wherein the program authority is identified by a multicast user which the STB belongs to and an STB identifier; receiving a multicast join request of the STB; and according to the multicast join request, acquiring the program authority of the STB which transmits the multicast join request so as to control the programs of the STB which transmits the multicast join request. In the method, the program authority is bound to the STB per se, so that when one port connected with the STB changes, the programs which can be watched through the STB can be bound to the STB per se and do not change along with the change of the port.

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A kind of control method of group broadcasting program, device and system
Technical field
The present invention relates to communication system, relate in particular to a kind of control method, device and system of group broadcasting program.
Background technology
multicasting technology realizes that the network mid point is to the efficient data transmission of multiple spot, adopt multicasting technology, the source server only need to transmit a multicast data message to backbone network, multicast data message is sent to the access device that directly is connected with the user through backbone network, when transmitting to different users, access device just can be replicated many parts, as seen multicasting technology has greatly reduced taking of the network bandwidth in the data transmission procedure, effectively reduce the load between backbone network and source server, reduced the probability that data congestion appears in backbone network, it is the point-to-multipoint communication service support technology that is fit to the most.
IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) is exactly a kind of VOD service that utilizes multicasting technology to realize, IPTV user comes the program request video frequency program by set-top box STB (Set Top Box), the program that IPTV user can watch can not controlled, can control yet.The multicast user who configures in the upper sign to IPTV user of IP Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer DSLAM (Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer), the corresponding one family of this multicast user, and can configure the program authority based on the multicast user.
When there are a plurality of STB in same family, namely connect a plurality of STB under a gateway device, if a plurality of STB have identical program authority, only need to set up a multicast user for this family on IP DSLAM, and for this multicast user configures the program authority, the program that a plurality of STB of this family can this multicast user of program request have the right to watch, and have identical authority.
If require a plurality of STB to have different program authorities, existing processing mode is that user gateway RG (Resident Gateway) equipment adds different 802.1Q TAG according to different ports, IP DSLAM creates the multicast user based on 802.1Q TAG, for the multicast user arranges the program authority, like this, so long as no matter the STB under this port is that its program authority of which STB is the same, changes STB program authority and can not change.
Summary of the invention
The embodiment of the present invention provides a kind of control method, device and system of group broadcasting program, is used for realizing the binding of program authority and STB itself, thereby the program authority of STB itself is controlled.
One embodiment of the invention provides a kind of control method of group broadcasting program, comprises step:
The multicast that access device receives from set-top box STB joins request, and comprises the STB mark of described STB during described multicast joins request;
described access device is according to the described multicast multicast user of identification under described STB that join request, obtain the affiliated multicast user's of described STB identification information, inquire about the multicast user's who preserves on described access device identification information and the corresponding relation of STB and group broadcasting program list according to described multicast user's identification information and described STB mark, obtain the group broadcasting program that described STB can watch, thereby the group broadcasting program to described STB is controlled, wherein, the related a plurality of STB of described multicast user, described multicast user's identification information comprises port-mark and the 802.1Q TAG of the port on access device.
One embodiment of the invention provides a kind of control method of group broadcasting program, comprising:
The multicast that access device receives from STB joins request, and comprises the STB mark of described STB during described multicast joins request;
described access device joins request according to described multicast and identifies multicast user corresponding to described STB, obtain multicast user corresponding to described STB identification information, inquire about the multicast user's who preserves identification information and the corresponding relation of group broadcasting program list according to described multicast user's identification information, obtain the group broadcasting program that described STB can watch, thereby the group broadcasting program to described STB is controlled, wherein, described multicast user's identification information comprises the port-mark of the port on access device, 802.1Q TAG and STB mark, the port-mark and the STB mark that perhaps comprise the port on access device.
One embodiment of the invention provides a kind of access device, comprising:
Program rights management unit, the program authority for supervisor top box STB comprises the identification information of storage sets broadcasting user and the corresponding relation of STB mark and group broadcasting program list;
The multicast protocol message process unit, the multicast that receives from STB joins request, and described multicast joins request and comprises the STB mark;
control unit, the multicast of receiving according to the multicast protocol message process unit joins request and obtains described STB mark and determine multicast user under described STB, according to the multicast user's of the identification information of the multicast user under described STB mark and described STB inquiry program rights management unit storage identification information and the corresponding relation of STB mark and group broadcasting program list, obtain the program authority of described STB, thereby the group broadcasting program to described STB is controlled, wherein, described multicast user's identification information comprises port-mark and the 802.1Q TAG of the port on access device, the port-mark that perhaps comprises the port on access device, 802.1QTAG and STB mark.
One embodiment of the invention provides a kind of control system of group broadcasting program, comprises access device, gateway device and STB, and access device is connected with described STB by gateway device,
STB joins request in order to send multicast, and described multicast joins request and comprises the STB mark;
Described gateway device is in order to forward the message between described STB and described access device;
access device, join request in order to receive described multicast, join request according to described multicast and obtain described STB mark and determine multicast user under described STB, inquire about multicast user's identification information and the corresponding relation of STB mark and group broadcasting program list according to the identification information of the multicast user under described STB mark and described STB, obtain the program authority of described STB, thereby the group broadcasting program to described STB is controlled, wherein, described multicast user's identification information comprises port-mark and the 802.1QTAG of the port on access device, the port-mark that perhaps comprises the port on access device, 802.1Q TAG and STB mark.
The methods, devices and systems of the control STB program that the embodiment of the present invention provides have following technique effect: in the situation that one family has a plurality of STB, each STB has different program authorities, when the program authority of these STB is set, program authority and STB self are bound, like this, no matter this STB is connected on which port of this family, and the program that can watch is all fixing, can not change along with the change of port.
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The schematic diagram of the system architecture that realizes the STB group broadcasting program that Fig. 1 provides for the embodiment of the present invention;
The control method first embodiment flow chart of the group broadcasting program of the STB that Fig. 2 provides for the embodiment of the present invention;
The control method second embodiment flow chart of the group broadcasting program of the STB that Fig. 3 provides for the embodiment of the present invention;
The structural representation of the access device that Fig. 4 provides for the embodiment of the present invention;
The schematic diagram of the control system of the group broadcasting program of the STB that Fig. 5 provides for the embodiment of the present invention.
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For the purpose, technical scheme and the advantage that make the embodiment of the present invention is clearer, below in conjunction with drawings and Examples, the present invention is further elaborated.Should be appreciated that specific embodiment described herein only in order to explain the present invention, is not intended to limit the present invention.
In whole specification and claims, unless other clear, following term represents following implication successively:
Multicast channel: be used for the passage of bear multicast relevant information, have identification information.
The multicast user: access device is used as the user of multicast channel as the multicast user, has identification information, the identification information that has can be corresponding multicast channel identification information partly or entirely.
Port-mark: frame that can frame, groove, the port under on equipment is corresponding with port number, slot number and port numbers represent.
Figure 1 shows that the system architecture schematic diagram of realizing multicast, in the figure, access device 100 is positioned at local side, and gateway device 110 and two STB belong to one family, and gateway device 110 is connected with port one on access device 100.Gateway device 110 is connected with port by port 2 respectively and is connected two STB, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that one family can have a plurality of STB, wherein,
Network management system 120 is used for the program authority of STB is set, and the program authority of STB is handed down to access device 100.
IPTV server 130 is used for issuing according to the request of access device 100 the group broadcasting program stream that comprises corresponding group broadcasting program.
Access device 100 is used for the message between forward gateway equipment and upper layer network equipment and the conversion of carrying out Access Network internal agreement and Upper Level Network Protocol as gateway device 110 and the intermediate equipment that is positioned at the upper layer network equipment of upper layer network.
Gateway device 110 is used for forwarding the message between STB and access device 100.
One embodiment of the invention provides the control method of the group broadcasting program of a kind of STB, the method that provides can be in the situation that one family has at least one STB, program authority and the STB itself of STB are bound, thereby make which port on the gateway device of no matter a STB being received this family, its group broadcasting program that can watch is fixed.Have two STB as an example with one family in the present embodiment, when having a plurality of STB, the method for using when having two STB in the control method of the group broadcasting program of a plurality of STB and the present embodiment is similar.
during joining request, the multicast that sends due to STB carries the STB mark, therefore, the group broadcasting program of STB is controlled to be comprised two kinds of methods: for one family creates a multicast channel, the STB of this family passes through the relevant information of this passage sending and receiving multicast, because access device is used as the user of multicast channel as the multicast user, therefore, a plurality of STB of this family belong to a multicast user, in this case, the program authority is set is multicast user's identification information and the corresponding relation of STB mark and group broadcasting program list, wherein, multicast user's identification information is the part in the identification information of corresponding multicast channel.After access device 100 receives that the multicast of STB joins request, the multicast user of identification under STB, the program authority that can obtain STB in conjunction with multicast user's identification information and STB mark; Also can create a multicast channel for each STB of this family when creating multicast channel, like this, access device is used as each STB as a multicast user, the program authority is set is multicast user's identification information and the corresponding relation of group broadcasting program list, after receiving that multicast joins request, obtain multicast user's identification information, issue corresponding group broadcasting program stream according to the program authority that arranges, the below introduces respectively this two kinds of execution modes.
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Access device creates a multicast channel for each family, a plurality of STB of this family are used as a multicast user to be treated, after receiving that multicast that STB sends joins request, multicast user under identification STB, obtain program authority corresponding to STB according to affiliated multicast user's identification information and STB mark, specifically comprise step:
Step 200, access device creates a multicast channel for each family.
Access device 100 create with gateway device 110 between multicast channel, the multicast channel that creates is for the bear multicast relevant information, as multicast join request, the multicast relevant information such as group business stream.Concrete, access device 100 creates the multicast channel between access device 100 and Network Management Equipment 110 according to port-mark, the 802.1Q TAG of the port on access device 100, and about specifically how creating multicast channel, those of ordinary skills should know.Wherein, 802.1Q TAG is used for the gateway device of sign different home, in Fig. 1, the identification information of port one and the 802.1Q TAG corresponding with gateway device 110 can identify the multicast user who uses the multicast channel between access device 100 and gateway device 110, and access device 100 is preserved the identification information of multicast channel.
The program authority that step 205, access device arrange STB is multicast user's identification information and the corresponding relation of STB mark and group broadcasting program list.
Access device 100 request network management systems 120 issue the program authority of STB, the program authority is multicast user's identification information and the corresponding relation of STB mark and group broadcasting program list, the program authority of STB also can configure the spontaneous access device 100 that is handed down to by network management system 120, wherein, multicast user's identification information comprises port-mark, the 802.1Q TAG of the port on access device 100.
The STB mark can be at least a in authentication username, STB account number and other extend informations of MAC Address, STB of IP address, the STB of STB.In the present embodiment the STB mark with the IP address of STB as an example, operator can arrange the IP address of STB when providing STB, and the IP address of the STB that provides is registered.When operation, can fixing static ip address be set the different STB to one family when providing STB, can not be fixedly installed when providing yet, but require STB to start a PPPOE session when reaching the standard grade, authenticate to the upper strata, the account number of the STB by prior granting dynamically arranges the IP address of STB.After the IP address of STB arranged, the source IP address that the multicast that STB sends joins request was exactly the IP address of STB self, and wherein, it can be existing IGMP message that multicast joins request.
Step 210, STB sends the multicast that comprises the STB mark and joins request.
STB sends multicast by gateway device 110 to access device 100 and joins request, and comprises the IP address of STB and the group broadcasting program that the STB request adds during multicast joins request.
Step 215, the multicast that gateway device sends STB joins request and is transmitted to access device.
After gateway device 110 receives that the multicast of STB initiation joins request, judge whether this multicast comprises 802.1Q TAG in joining request, if comprised 802.1Q TAG during multicast joins request, 110 of gateway devices join request this multicast and directly are transmitted to access device 100; Otherwise, gateway device 110 is at the multicast middle interpolation 802.1Q TAG corresponding with gateway device 110 that join request, the multicast that will comprise 802.1Q TAG joins request and sends to access device 100, wherein, 802.1Q TAG comprises the information such as Ether frame type, virtual LAN VLAN ID and frame priority.
Step 220, the program authority that access device joins request and obtains STB according to multicast.
After access device 100 receives that the multicast of gateway device 110 forwardings joins request, obtaining the identification information of the multicast channel that bear multicast joins request, can be specifically to obtain the port-mark of the port that on access device 100, receiving group joins request and the multicast 802.1Q TAG in joining request.Obtain multicast user's identification information according to the identification information of the multicast channel that obtains, STB mark during the extraction multicast joins request, multicast user's identification information comprises port-mark and 802.1Q TAG, according to the program authority of the STB that preserves on multicast user's identification information and STB label lookup access device 100, thereby judge whether this STB has the authority of watching the group broadcasting program of asking.
Step 225, the group business stream that access device will comprise group broadcasting program sends to gateway device.
Access device 100 can be after authentication be passed through, receive group business stream corresponding to this group broadcasting program that IPTV server 130 issues, by searching transmitting on access device 100, select corresponding multicast channel that group business stream is handed down to corresponding gateway device.If send at this STB the multicast channel (being called for short the upper strata multicast channel) that this multicast has been set up this group broadcasting program between access device 100 and IPTV server before joining request on access device 100, access device 100 sends this multicast at this STB not to be needed after joining request to the identical group broadcasting program of IPTV server request again, and directly the group business stream that this group broadcasting program is corresponding sends to this STB from the upper strata multicast channel of having set up.Wherein, this upper strata multicast channel can be pre-configured, can be to set up when each this group broadcasting program of authentication request, can be also that access device is set up when finding to ask for the first time this group broadcasting program, about how setting up the upper strata multicast channel, those of ordinary skills should know.
The group business stream that step 230, gateway device will comprise group broadcasting program is transmitted to corresponding STB.
After gateway device 110 is received the group business stream that access device 100 issues, group business stream is sent to corresponding STB.
Execution mode two
Access device is that each STB of one family creates a multicast channel, like this, just there are a plurality of multicast users in this family, respectively to STB that should family, after receiving that multicast that STB sends joins request, the multicast user of identification under STB obtains program authority corresponding to STB according to affiliated multicast user's identification information, specifically comprises step:
Step 300, access device are that each STB of one family creates a multicast channel.
access device 100 is based on the port-mark of the port on access device 100, 802.1Q TAG and STB mark, perhaps the port-mark of the port on access device 100 and STB mark create the multicast channel between access device 100 and STB, in Fig. 1, access device 100 is based on the port-mark of port one, multicast channel between the STB that the 802.1Q TAG corresponding with gateway device 110 and STB mark establishment access device 100 and gateway device 110 connect, like this, access device 100 creates two multicast channels for this family, access device is used as two STB of this family as the multicast user, access device 100 is preserved the identification information of multicast channel.
The program authority that step 305, access device arrange STB is multicast user's identification information and the corresponding relation of group broadcasting program list.
Access device 100 request network management systems 120 issue the program authority of STB, the program authority can be multicast user's identification information and the corresponding relation of group broadcasting program list, the program authority of STB also can configure the spontaneous access device 100 that is handed down to by network management system 120, wherein, multicast user's identification information comprises port-mark, 802.1Q TAG and the STB sign of the port on access device 100.
Step 310, STB sends the multicast that comprises the STB mark and joins request.
STB sends multicast by gateway device 110 to access device 100 and joins request, and comprises the IP address of STB and the group broadcasting program that the STB request adds during multicast joins request.
Step 315, the multicast that gateway device sends STB joins request and is transmitted to access device.
After gateway device 110 receives that the multicast of STB initiation joins request, judge whether this multicast comprises 802.1Q TAG in joining request, if comprised 802.1Q TAG during multicast joins request, 110 of gateway devices join request this multicast and directly are transmitted to access device 100; Otherwise, gateway device 110 is at the multicast middle interpolation 802.1Q TAG corresponding with gateway device 110 that join request, the multicast that will comprise 802.1Q TAG joins request and sends to access device 100, wherein, 802.1Q TAG comprises the information such as Ether frame type, virtual LAN VLAN ID and frame priority.
Step 320, the program authority that access device joins request and obtains STB according to multicast.
After access device 100 receives that the multicast of gateway device 110 forwardings joins request, obtain the identification information of the multicast channel that bear multicast joins request, can be specifically to obtain the port-mark of the port that on access device 100, receiving group joins request and multicast 802.1Q TAG and the STB mark in joining request, or obtain the port-mark of the port that on access device 100, receiving group joins request and the multicast STB mark in joining request.Obtain multicast user's identification information according to the identification information of the multicast channel that obtains, multicast user's identification information comprises port-mark, 802.1Q TAG and STB mark, search the program authority of the STB that preserves on access device 100 according to multicast user's identification information, thereby judge whether this STB has the authority of watching the group broadcasting program of asking.
Step 325, the group business stream that access device will comprise group broadcasting program sends to gateway device.
Access device 100 can be after authentication be passed through, receive group business stream corresponding to this group broadcasting program that IPTV server 130 issues, by searching transmitting on access device 100, select corresponding multicast channel that group business stream is handed down to corresponding gateway device.
The group business stream that step 330, gateway device will comprise group broadcasting program is transmitted to corresponding STB.
After gateway device 110 is received the group business stream that access device 100 issues, group business stream is sent to corresponding STB.
The control method of the group broadcasting program of the STB that the present embodiment provides, when one family has a plurality of STB, a plurality of STB to this family distinguish by the STB mark, for different STB arranges corresponding program authority, thereby program authority and STB itself are bound, like this, even a STB is received on the another one port from a port of this family gateway equipment, the program that this STB can watch is also fixed, the variation of the port that can not connect along with STB and changing.
The present embodiment an embodiment provide a kind of access device, as shown in Figure 4, comprising: program rights management unit 401, control unit 403, multicast protocol message process unit 405, multicast forwarding unit 407 and service creation unit 409, wherein,
Program rights management unit 401, the program authority that is used for management STB, specifically comprise: the corresponding relation of the identification information of storage sets broadcasting user and STB mark and group broadcasting program list, wherein, multicast user's identification information comprises: the port-mark of access device upper port and 802.1Q TAG.Wherein, program rights management unit 401 can send a request message to network management system by the interface with network management system, the request webmaster issues the program authority of STB, and by receiving the program authority of the STB that webmaster issues with the interface of network management system, the program authority can be multicast user's identification information and the corresponding relation of STB mark and group broadcasting program list.
Multicast protocol message process unit 405 is used for monitoring and resolving the multicast protocol message, and recording-related information.For example, the multicast of multicast protocol message process unit 405 monitoring STB initiations joins request.
control unit 403, be used for obtaining the STB mark that multicast that multicast protocol message process unit 405 receives joins request, determine to send the affiliated multicast user of STB that multicast joins request, according to the identification information of the multicast user in multicast user's identification information and STB mark inquiry program rights management unit 401 and the corresponding relation of STB mark and group broadcasting program list, obtain and send the group broadcasting program list that STB that described multicast joins request can watch, judge according to the group broadcasting program list that obtains whether this STB has the authority of the group broadcasting program of the request watched, if be yes, judge this STB send this multicast join request before access device whether set up the multicast channel of this group broadcasting program between access device and IPTV server, if be yes, notify multicast retransmission unit 407 to issue the group business stream corresponding with group broadcasting program and be handed down to STB, if this STB send this multicast join request before access device also do not set up the multicast channel of this group broadcasting program between access device and IPTV server, informing business creating unit 409 is set up the multicast channel between access device and upper layer network equipment.
Multicast forwarding unit 407 disposes multicast forward table, is used for according to multicast forward table forwarding multicasting Business Stream.Wherein, the group business stream that multicast forwarding unit 407 this group broadcasting program that server is issued is corresponding is transmitted to STB by the multicast channel of this STB.
Service creation unit 409 is for the multicast channel between establishment access device and gateway device and the multicast channel between access device and upper layer network equipment.
Service creation unit 409 can comprise dual mode at the multicast channel that creates between access device and gateway device, a kind of mode is based on port-mark and the 802.1Q TAG of the port on access device, another mode is based on based on the port-mark of the port on the port-mark of the port on access device, 802.1Q TAG and STB mark or access device and STB mark, about how creating the multicast channel between access device and gateway device, those of ordinary skills should know.
After service creation unit 409 also is used for order according to control unit 403 and has created multicast channel between access device and upper layer network equipment, notice multicast retransmission unit 407 is transmitted to STB with group business stream.
The access device that the present embodiment provides is by distinguishing STB, program authority and STB are bound, like this, when one family has a plurality of STB, STB mark in joining request by multicast is distinguished the multicast which STB specifically sends and is joined request, thereby select the program authority corresponding with this STB, the group broadcasting program that STB can watch is controlled.
One embodiment of the invention provides the control system of the group broadcasting program of a kind of STB, as shown in Figure 5, comprises access device 500, gateway device 510 and STB520,
Wherein,
STB520 is used for sending multicast to access device 500 and joins request, and comprises the STB mark of STB510 during multicast joins request.
Gateway device 510 be used for to forward the message between STB520 and access device 500, comprises that multicast with STB520 joins request to be transmitted to access device 500.
Access device 500, the multicast that is used for receiving from STB510 joins request, obtain the identification information of the multicast channel that bear multicast joins request and the multicast STB mark in joining request, obtain multicast user's identification information according to the identification information of multicast channel, inquire about the program authority of the STB that preserves on access device 500 according to the multicast user's who obtains identification information and STB mark, thereby obtain the group broadcasting program that STB can watch.
Access device 500 be used for also that port-mark, 802.1Q TAG according to the port on access device 500 creates and gateway device 510 between multicast channel, request upper layer network equipment is (not shown in Fig. 5, can be Network Management Equipment etc.) issue the program authority of STB, the program authority is multicast user's identification information and the corresponding relation of STB and group broadcasting program list, wherein, multicast user's identification information comprises port-mark and the 802.1Q TAG of the port on access device 500.
access device also can be according to the port-mark of the port on access device 500, 802.1Q TAG and STB mark, perhaps according to the port-mark of the port on access device 500 and the multicast channel between the establishment of STB mark and STB520, request upper layer network equipment issues the program authority of STB, the program authority is multicast user's identification information and the corresponding relation of group broadcasting program list, wherein, multicast user's identification information comprises the port-mark of the port on access device 500, 802.1Q TAG and STB mark or comprise port-mark and the STB mark of the port on access device 500.Access device 500 is after receiving that multicast from STB510 joins request, obtain the identification information of the multicast channel that bear multicast joins request, obtain multicast user's identification information according to the identification information of multicast channel, the program authority of the STB that preserves on identification information inquiry access device 500 according to the multicast user who obtains, thus the group broadcasting program that STB can watch obtained.
The control system of the group broadcasting program of the STB that the present embodiment provides, by STB is distinguished, select corresponding program authority that the program of STB is controlled, program authority and the STB itself of STB in energy assurance system bind, the program authority of each STB is fixed, after a STB received on another port from a port of the access device of one family, the authority of STB can not change.
The above is only preferred embodiment of the present invention, not in order to limiting the present invention, all any modifications of doing within the spirit and principles in the present invention, is equal to and replaces and improvement etc., within all should being included in protection scope of the present invention.

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1. the control method of a group broadcasting program, is characterized in that, comprising:
The multicast that access device receives from set-top box STB joins request, and comprises the STB mark of described STB during described multicast joins request;
described access device is according to the described multicast multicast user of identification under described STB that join request, obtain the affiliated multicast user's of described STB identification information, inquire about the multicast user's who preserves on described access device identification information and the corresponding relation of STB and group broadcasting program list according to described multicast user's identification information and described STB mark, obtain the group broadcasting program that described STB can watch, thereby the group broadcasting program to described STB is controlled, wherein, the related a plurality of STB of described multicast user, the corresponding multicast channel of described a plurality of STB, described a plurality of STB is by described multicast channel receiving group program,
Described multicast user's identification information comprises port-mark and the 802.1QTAG of the port on access device.
2. method according to claim 1, is characterized in that, access device receives multicast from STB and also comprises before joining request:
Described access device creates multicast channel according to port-mark and the 802.1Q TAG of the port on described access device;
Described access device request upper layer network equipment issues multicast user's identification information and the corresponding relation of STB and group broadcasting program list.
3. method according to claim 1, is characterized in that, described access device specifically comprises according to the described multicast multicast user of identification under described STB that join request:
Described access device obtains the port-mark that receives the port that described multicast joins request and the described multicast 802.1Q TAG in joining request, and obtains according to the 802.1Q TAG that obtains and port-mark the multicast channel that the described multicast of carrying joins request;
Described access device obtains according to the identification information of described multicast channel the identification information that described multicast is supported.
4. according to claim 1-3 described methods of any one, is characterized in that, described STB is labeled as in the account number of the authentication username of MAC Address, STB of IP address, the STB of STB and STB.
5. an access device, is characterized in that, comprising:
Program rights management unit, the program authority for supervisor top box STB comprises the identification information of storage sets broadcasting user and the corresponding relation of STB mark and group broadcasting program list; The corresponding a plurality of STB of multicast user, the corresponding multicast channel of described a plurality of STB, described a plurality of STB are by described multicast channel receiving group program;
The multicast protocol message process unit, the multicast that receives from STB joins request, and described multicast joins request and comprises the STB mark;
Control unit, the multicast of receiving according to the multicast protocol message process unit joins request and obtains described STB mark and determine multicast user under described STB, according to the multicast user's of the identification information of the multicast user under described STB mark and described STB inquiry program rights management unit storage identification information and the corresponding relation of STB mark and group broadcasting program list, obtain the program authority of described STB, thereby the group broadcasting program of described STB is controlled;
Wherein, described multicast user's identification information comprises port-mark and the 802.1Q TAG of the port on access device, perhaps comprises port-mark, 802.1Q TAG and the STB mark of the port on access device.
6. equipment according to claim 5, is characterized in that, described access device also comprises the service creation unit,
Described service creation unit be used for to create multicast channel, if run succeeded, notifies described program rights management unit to send the request message that issues the program authority to network management system.
7. equipment according to claim 5, it is characterized in that, described access device also comprises the relay retransmission unit, described multicast forwarding cell location has multicast forward table, be used for after described control unit judges that described STB has the authority of watching the group broadcasting program of asking, the group business stream that will comprise described group broadcasting program according to described multicast forward table sends to described STB.
8. the control system of a group broadcasting program, comprise access device, gateway device and STB, access device is connected with described STB by gateway device, it is characterized in that, described gateway device connects a plurality of STB, described a plurality of STB is corresponding with a multicast channel between access device and described gateway device, and described a plurality of STB are by described multicast channel receiving group program;
STB joins request in order to send multicast, and described multicast joins request and comprises the STB mark;
Described gateway device is in order to forward the message between described STB and described access device;
Access device, join request in order to receive described multicast, join request according to described multicast and obtain described STB mark and determine multicast user under described STB, inquire about multicast user's identification information and the corresponding relation of STB mark and group broadcasting program list according to the identification information of the multicast user under described STB mark and described STB, obtain the program authority of described STB, thereby the group broadcasting program of described STB is controlled;
Wherein, described multicast user's identification information comprises port-mark and the 802.1Q TAG of the port on access device, perhaps comprises port-mark, 802.1Q TAG and the STB mark of the port on access device.
9. system according to claim 8, it is characterized in that, described access device also is used for receiving the program authority that network management system issues, and described program authority is kept on access device, wherein, the program authority is multicast user's identification information and the corresponding relation of STB mark and group broadcasting program list.
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