HYCAST

Computer software for protocol conversion between multicast and unicast, which enables multiple networks to bridge and broadcast multicast packets to distribute the multimedia streaming contents from one network edge to another by converting multicast packet to unicast for the network not supporting multicast features; all for use in collecting billing data, managing subscriber information, processing accounts receivable, managing delinquent accounts and issuing invoices in the fields of convergent billing, customer care, IP mediation, Internet service provisioning, and revenue modelling