Patent ID: 7295548

Claim:
A method for disaggregating audio-visual systems comprising: providing an audio-visual stream from a source device as one or more data packets for communication over a non-isochronous link of a network; transmitting said one or more data packets over said non-isochronous link of said network, each of said one or more data packets having a time stamp and a maximum propagation delay indication appended thereto, said maximum propagation delay indication representing a predetermined transmission time of said one or more data packets; receiving said one or more data packets at multiple output devices and obtaining a time stamp, and a maximum propagation delay indication from each of the one or more received data packets; and rendering each of said one or more data packets on said multiple output devices in a synchronized fashion, wherein the synchronized fashion is based on an aggregation of said obtained maximum propagation delay indication and said obtained time stamp for each data packet.