Carrier Corporation

Kidde Fire Protection Limited

Antonio Montero

Rohith Tenneti

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.

Fire system interoperability protocol

A node within a network including a plurality of interconnected nodes, and a method for operating a network that includes a plurality of interconnected nodes is provided. The network includes a primary path and an alternate path. Each path is respectively configured to connect a source node to a receiving node. The alternate path may include at least one more intermediate node than the primary path. Both the primary path and the alternate path are stored in a routing table. The data packets may be transmitted, substantially simultaneously, from the source node via the primary path and via the alternate path toward the receiving node. The data packets are accepted and forward by the receiving node. The determination of where to forward the data packets may be done locally by inspecting the incoming data packets.

Single node multiple forwarding paths

A system and method for performing live firmware and configuration update. A method includes maintaining live operation of network nodes during an update, each of the network nodes including a disk that is divided into a plurality of partitions, a currently running application file is located in a first partition of the network node; and downloading an update file in a common partition of the disk of the network node to be updated. A method may include extracting the update file from the common partition to a second partition of the disc of the network nodes to be updated; and switching the live operation of the network nodes to operate from the currently running application file in the first partition to the update file in the second partition.

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Bradenton, FL, United States of America

Antonio Montero