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Method and apparatus for distributed control of an interfacing-device network

  • US 9,183,163 B2
  • Filed: 01/08/2013
  • Issued: 11/10/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method, comprising:

  • maintaining, by a first network controller, a first database which stores information associated with a first set of interfacing devices of a local-area network, wherein the first database includes a database mirror for a subset of a second database of a second network controller which has primary control of a second set of provisioned interfacing devices of a wide-area network, wherein a respective interfacing device obtains sensor data from one or more attached physical devices, and wherein a respective physical device includes a sensor for measuring one or more physical attributes; and

    responsive to determining that the second network controller that hosts the second database for the provisioned interfacing devices of the wide-area network has gone offline, configuring the first network controller to obtain primary control of the first set of interfacing devices of the local-area network.

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