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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 11, 2016
Ketra, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Nav Sooch, Austin, TX (US);
Ketra, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
A lighting control system and method is disclosed for not only controlling visual content loaded within a group set of illumination devices configured within a wireless network, but also for ensuring minimal control delay to those grouped devices. The lighting control system can include a lighting controller device that controls a plurality of lamps within a mesh network, not only to group those lamps but also to assign content to lamps within that group. The combination of a guaranteed groupcast to each of the group of lamps and an acknowledge back from those lamps that is aggregated over a single path achieves the improved lighting control system disclosed herein.