US 6,803,728 B2Granted

System for control of devices

AssigneeLutron Electronics Co., Inc.

InventorsGnanagiri Balasubramaniam, Richard Leo Black, Brian Michael Courtney, Jason Douglass Craze, Stuart William Dejonge, William Harlan Howe, Benjamin Aaron Johnson, Glen Andrew Kruse, Donald Ray Mosebrook, Daniel Curtis Raneri, Chris Mark Rogan, Timothy Russell Roper, Siddarth P. Sinha, Steven Spencer Thompson, Brian Raymond Valenta, Robert Francis Walko, Jr.

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Abstract

A wireless control system for lighting or the like has a central processor that receives commands from keypads and other control devices, and sends commands to dimmers and other controlled devices. The central processor also receives status reports from the dimmers and sends updates to the keypads, in order to ensure that displays on the keypads are up to date.

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Dependent claims

A lighting control system comprising event initiators having controls operable by a user, devices controlled by said event initiators, and a central processor, wherein:

said event initiators and controlled devices comprise parts of a system database;
said database part within each event initiator maps operations of controls by a user to commands transmissible from such event initiator to said controlled devices;
said database part within each controlled device maps commands received from an event initiator to actions of such device;
said transmissible commands contain less data than is necessary to describe completely the operations of controls or the actions of devices;
said event initiators are arranged to transmit to said central processor sufficient information to identify an operation of said controls by a user that validly commands the system, and
said central processor is arranged to transmit commands to said controlled devices.

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A lighting control system comprising event initiators having controls operable by a user and devices controlled by said event initiators, wherein:

said event initiators and controlled devices comprise parts of a system database;
said database part within each event initiator maps operations of controls by a user to commands transmissible from such event initiator to said controlled devices;
said database part within each controlled device maps commands received from an event initiator to actions of such device;
said transmissible commands contain less data than is necessary to describe completely the operations of controls or the actions of devices;
and
each controlled device after taking action in response to a said command transmits a response indicative of an event occurring at said controlled device resulting from the action.

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A lighting control system comprising an event initiator having a control operable by a user and a device controlled by said event initiator, wherein:

said event initiator and said controlled device comprise parts of a system database;
said database part within said event initiator maps an operation of said control by a user to a command transmissible from said event initiator to said controlled device;
said database part within said controlled device maps said command received from said event initiator to an action of said device;
said command contains less data than is necessary to describe completely said operation of said control or said action of said device;
and
said controlled device after taking said action in response to said command transmits a response indicative of an event occurring at said controlled device resulting from said action.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.