Patent ID: 7586945

Claim:
Method for reserving isochronous resources in a wireless network comprising at least a wireless source device, said method comprising: providing an output plug in a wired source device on a wired bus connected to the wireless source device, said output plug being associated with an output plug register defining a maximum amount of data output by said output plug during a frame on the wired bus; reserving an amount of bandwidth on the wired bus corresponding to said maximum amount of data to be sent in a frame on the wired bus; providing an output plug in said wireless source device, said output plug being associated with an output plug register, wherein said output plug register defines a maximum amount of data output by said output plug during a wireless frame; reserving an amount of bandwidth on the wireless network corresponding to said maximum amount of data to be sent in a wireless frame with an isochronous resource manager of the wireless network; and providing, from the wired source device to the wireless source device, isochronous data to be sent over the wireless network, wherein said wireless network is based on a TDMA frame transmission scheme.