Patent ID: 7936672

Claim:
A communication system for use with a packet-based network comprising: a first node configured to transmit data in data packets across the network; and a second node configured to receive the data packets from the network and serialize the data; wherein the second node includes a buffer, said buffer being configurable to adjust to network packet delay variance through analysis of a packet delay variance measurement, as measured over at least one period of time, wherein the packet delay variance measurement includes monitoring, for the at least one period of time, a buffer depth of the buffer, the buffer depth being a temporal measurement of a delay that a data packet encounters from when the data packet is received by the buffer to when the data packet is serialized, wherein, in a first phase of operation, a plurality of buffer parameters are set to predetermined values, and wherein, in a second phase of operation, in response to the monitoring of the buffer depth of the buffer, one or more of the buffer parameters having been set and a clock frequency of the second node are automatically adjusted.