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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 08, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 09, 2007
Applicant:
W. Eric Smith, Lindon, UT (US);
Inventor:
W. Eric Smith, Lindon, UT (US);
Assignee:
Control4 Corporation, Draper, UT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system and method are provided for controlling access to local electronic devices in an automation network while maintaining failover capability. The method can include the operation of setting a state of a networked device to an online state. Another operation is sending a communication from the networked device to a controller requesting permission to change state of the networked device. The networked device may wait a predetermined amount of time to receive permission to change state. The state of the network device can change without permission from the controller after the predetermined amount of time has passed.