Patent ID: 8516130

Claim:
A talker device configured to establish a connection with a listener over an Ethernet Audio-Video Bridging (“AVB”) network, the talker device comprising: a plurality of modules executable by a processor, the plurality of modules comprising: a non-AVB application layer interface module; a Stream Reservation Protocol (“SRP”) stack module to establish connections over the Ethernet AVB network in accordance with SRP; and a state machine module in communication with the non-AVB application layer interface module and the SRP stack module; where the non-AVB application layer interface module is configured to: determine to create a data stream; and in response to the determination, communicate a non-AVB message to the state machine module, the non-AVB message indicating to the state machine to establish a connection for the data stream over the Ethernet AVB network; where the state machine module is configured to: receive the non-AVB message; in response to receipt of the non-AVB message, communicate to the AVB network using the SRP stack module that the talker device wants to communicate the data stream; determine using the SRP stack module an ability of a listener device to accept the data stream; and establish the connection over the Ethernet AVB network in accordance with SRP for communication of the data stream with the listener device in response to determination of the ability of the listener device to accept the data stream.