Patent ID: 8254248

Claim:
A method for computer networking, the method comprising: in an audio video bridging network device: communicating one or more stream reservation protocol (SRP) messages to reserve network resources over a plurality of network paths; transmitting a plurality of data streams over said reserved network resources of said plurality of network paths, wherein one or more supplemental data streams of said plurality of data streams comprises data that is redundant to a first data stream of said plurality of data streams; determining a plurality of latencies, wherein each of said latencies corresponds to one of said plurality of data streams; sizing one or more buffers utilized for buffering said first data stream such that a size of said one or more buffers corresponds to an amount of data received from said first data stream during a time period corresponding to a difference between: one or more of said plurality of latencies which are associated with said first data stream, and one or more of said plurality of latencies which are associated with one of said supplemental data streams; assigning a first stream identifier to said first data stream; and assigning an additional unique stream identifier to each of said one or more supplemental data streams, wherein each of said additional unique stream identifiers differs from said first stream identifier.