System and method for ensuring minimal control delay to grouped illumination devices configured within a wireless network

USRE48882E1 · kind E1 · reissue

Assignee

• Lutron Technology Company LLC · US

Inventors

• Horace C. Ho · Austin, US
• Rebecca Frank · Austin, US
• Mark Quilling · Vero Beach, US
• Rebecca M. Ho · Austin, US
• Nav Sooch · Austin, US

Key dates

• Filing date: May 16, 2019
• Grant date: Jan 4, 2022
• Expiry date: May 16, 2039

Classification

• Technology area (CPC —): General

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.