Patent ID: 7269137

Claim:
A method for setting up an isochronous data stream connection between a talker terminal and at least two listener terminals in a network comprising a plurality of digital buses interconnected by a plurality of bridges, wherein each bridge is associated with an isochronous delay, wherein at least some of said bridges are associated with an isochronous delay that is parametrizable within a range of predetermined values, wherein the method comprises the following steps: (a) obtaining the identity of bridges belonging to each routing path between the talker terminal and each listener terminal; (b) identifying the bridges that do not belong to multiple routing paths among the routing paths between the talker terminal and the listener terminals; (c) determining bridges with parametrizable isochronous delay among the bridges identified in step (b); (d) selecting a value for the isochronous delay of at least one of the bridges determined in step (c), so as to make the total isochronous delays of the routing paths identical; (e) adapting at least one resource of said at least one of the bridges determined in step (c), so that the parametrizable isochronous delay of said bridge takes said selected value.