Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Internet protocol (IP) serverless page party (SPP) station and systems and methods for deploying multiple SPP stations
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Application No.: US16813253Application Date: 2020-03-09
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Publication No.: US11240380B2Publication Date: 2022-02-01
- Inventor: Adam Newman , David Bensted , Jeff Reid , Richard Rumsby
- Applicant: Hubbell Incorporated
- Applicant Address: US CT Shelton
- Assignee: Hubbell Incorporated
- Current Assignee: Hubbell Incorporated
- Current Assignee Address: US CT Shelton
- Agency: Dickinson Wright PLLC
- Main IPC: H04M3/56
- IPC: H04M3/56 ; H04L29/06 ; H04M7/00

Abstract:
A serverless Page Party (SPP) station is provided for page announcing and party line conferencing that is configured to implement mutual provisioning to allow all SPP stations within a system to mutually maintain their configurations in runtime, and multiple master station negotiation and master failover. Plural SPP stations are connected with Ethernet cable or WIFi to a network and therefore without need for expensive and cumbersome cabling and daisy-chain configuration among stations. SPP stations route packets between each other via multicast technology and without need for a IP-PBX or other server (e.g., a SIP server) for controlling inter-station connections. In Mutual Provisioning Mode, SPP stations operate using a system configuration obtained from other SPP stations already on the network using a command channel. System configuration is maintained by a SPP station designated as a master station. Plural SPP stations can negotiate among themselves to designate a new master station.
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