Patent ID: 8446909

Claim:
An audio/video bridging (AVB) system using an extended AVB reservation protocol, the AVB system comprising: an egress device configured to transmit at least one of a Generic Attribute Registration Protocol (GARP) message and a Multiple Registration Protocol (MRP) message, comprising an application stream identifier, to a relay device in response to the egress device being unaware of an AVB stream identifier corresponding to the application stream identifier; the relay device the application stream identifier according to the at least one of the GARP message and the MRP message, and to transmit to the at least one of the GARP message and the MRP message to an ingress device; and the ingress device configured to allocate the AVB stream identifier corresponding to the application stream identifier via the at least one of the GARP message and the MRP message comprising the application stream identifier, and transmitting to transmit a reservation signal including the AVB stream identifier to the relay device, wherein the relay device transmits the AVB stream identifier to the egress device.