Patent 8386661 was granted and assigned to Leviton (company) on February, 2013 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A system and method for controlling devices that are part of a peer to peer network of controllers is provided. Messages are routed to controllers of the network and such messages are used to control devices coupled to said controllers. Status messages indicating the state of devices are routed to controllers to allow the state of the devices to be displayed by said controllers.