Fire system interoperability protocol
AssigneeKidde Fire Protection, LLC
InventorAntonio Montero
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Abstract
A method and emergency system for performing a system interoperability protocol. A method may include discovering, at a first interoperability node of a first network including a first plurality of network nodes, and a second interoperability node of a second network including a second plurality of network nodes, the first network is different from the second network; and performing a protocol version compatibility check between the first interoperability node and the second interoperability node responsive to discovering the second interoperability node. The method can also include performing a function availability check of the second interoperability node responsive to the protocol version compatibility check; and providing interoperability functions to the second interoperability node.
Claims15
A method for performing a system interoperability protocol, the method comprising:
- discovering, at a first interoperability node of a first network comprising a first plurality of network nodes, and a second interoperability node of a second network comprising a second plurality of network nodes, wherein the first network is different from the second network;
- performing a protocol version compatibility check between the first interoperability node and the second interoperability node responsive to discovering the second interoperability node;
- performing an interoperability function availability check of the second interoperability node responsive to the protocol version compatibility check;
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- providing interoperability functions to the second interoperability node such that the first interoperability node and the second interoperability node exchange messages and exchange commands;
- wherein the first network and the second network are independent fire system networks.
An emergency system implementing a system interoperability protocol, the system comprising:
- a first interoperability node of a first network, the first network comprising a first plurality of network nodes;
- a second interoperability node of a second network, the second network comprising a second plurality of network nodes, wherein the first network is different from the second network;
- wherein the first interoperability node is configured to:
- discover the second interoperability node of the second network;
- responsive to discovering the second interoperability node, perform a protocol version compatibility check between the first interoperability node and the second interoperability node;
- perform an interoperability function availability check of the second interoperability node;
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- responsive to the interoperability function availability check, provide one or more interoperability functions to the second interoperability node based at least in part on the interoperability function availability check, such that the first interoperability node and the second interoperability node exchange messages and exchange commands;
- wherein the first network and the second network are independent fire networks.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.