SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REMOTELY ADMINISTERING AND SYNCHRONIZING A CLUSTERED GROUP OF ACCESS CONTROL PANELS

• US 20090080443A1
• Filed: 09/21/2007
• Published: 03/26/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Original Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Inventors: Dziadosz, John A.
• Granted Patent: US 8,554,865 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/401
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/00174 Electronically operated locks; Circuits therefor; Nonmechanical keys therefor, e.g. passive or active electrical keys or other data carriers without mechanical keys mechanical locks with electric permutation E05B49/00; arrangements for sensing or reading record carriers G06K7/00; electronic switching H03K17/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/025 for remote control or remote monitoring of applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416

Abstract

The present invention advantageously provides a system and method for remotely administering and synchronizing a clustered group of access control nodes using a gateway node. A device, such as a network browser, submits an update for one node of the cluster of nodes to a web server in the gateway node. The web server transmits, via a communication interface in the gateway node, the submitted update to the node configuration database of the appropriate node while the gateway updates its configuration database in accordance with the submitted update. In another embodiment, the device is a dedicated host computer. The data can be transmitted in accordance with a binary access protocol.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a device; and

a cluster comprising;

at least one node having a node configuration database having a common object and a local object; and

a gateway comprising;

a communications interface;

a web server; and

a gateway configuration database;

wherein said device submits an update for one node of said at least one node to said web server, said gateway updates said gateway configuration database using said submitted update and said web server transmits said submitted update to the node configuration database of the one node, said transmission using said communications interface.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein said transmission is in binary access protocol format.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein said device is one of a browser and a host.

4. A system comprising

a device;

and

a cluster comprising;

at least one node having a node configuration database having a common object and a local object; and

a gateway comprising;

a communications interface;

a web server; and

a gateway configuration database having said common object;

wherein said device submits an update for said common object, said gateway updates said common object in said gateway configuration database using said submitted update and said web server transmits said submitted update to said common object of said configuration database of the at least one node, said transmission using said communications interface.

5. The system according to claim 4, wherein said transmission is in binary access protocol format.

6. The system according to claim 4, wherein said device is one of a browser and a host.

7. A system comprising:

a device; and

a cluster comprising;

at least one node having a node configuration database having a common object and a local object; and

a gateway comprising;

a communications interface;

a web server; and

a gateway configuration database;

wherein said device submits a request to create a node to said web server, said gateway updates said gateway configuration database creating said node and said web server creates said requested node.

8. A method for administering and synchronizing a clustered group of nodes, said method comprising:

submitting to a gateway an update for a node having a local object, said gateway having a configuration database;

transmitting said submitted update to said node; and

updating said local object of said node and said configuration database.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein said update for said node is submitted from one of a host and a browser.

10. The method according to claim 8, wherein said transmitting is in binary access protocol format.

11. The method according to claim 8, wherein said gateway further comprises a web server for transmitting said update for said node.