Patent ID: 11868111
Assignee: LUTRON TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H  Y | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. An apparatus comprising:
at least one processor;
at least one memory device communicatively coupled to the at least one processor and having software instructions stored thereon that when executed by the at least one processor, direct the at least one processor to:
receive from a network device a request to receive messages communicated by a load control system, wherein the request comprises a subscription request to a channel associated with the load control system, wherein the load control system is configured to control electrical loads for an environment, and wherein the load control system is configured to publish messages to a message broker using a first topic and is configured to receive messages from the message broker by subscribing with the message broker to a second topic;
receive via the message broker a first message communicated by the load control system, wherein the first message has the first topic associated with it, and wherein the first message is received via an HTTP interface;
determine that the first topic associated with the first message is correlated to the channel;
based at least in part on determining that the first topic associated with the first message is correlated to the channel, determine that the network device requested to receive the first message communicated by the load control system; and
based at least in part on determining that the network device requested to receive the first message, communicate the first message to the network device.