Patent Document ID: 20060007961
Application ID: 11215481
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A computing system in a network system that includes a multimedia source and a multimedia sink, the multimedia source transmitting a stream of multimedia packets to the multimedia sink over a plurality of heterogeneous networks, the heterogeneous networks including a plurality of variable delay networks, the computing system comprising one or more computer-readable storage media having computer-executable instructions for implementing a method of performing constant delay communication of the stream of multimedia packets from the multimedia source over the heterogeneous networks to the multimedia sink even though one or more of the variable delay networks do not themselves provide for a common reckoning of time in the variable delay network, wherein the method comprises: establishing a common time reckoning in all of the variable delay networks that do not themselves provide for a common time reckoning; emulating the plurality of variable delay networks as one or more constant delay networks using the specific common time reckonings present in the plurality of variable delay networks, wherein the heterogeneous networks as a whole emulates a constant delay network; and transmitting a multimedia packet over the heterogeneous networks.