Patent ID: 8704897

Claim:
A method of controlling a camera system comprising a plurality of tiers of components, the method comprising: receiving a first command at a first one of the tiers of the camera system; comparing the first command to a first routing table of the first tier, wherein the first routing table identifies commands executed by a first business logic block of the first tier and commands executed by a second business logic block of a second one of the tiers of the camera system; executing the first command at the first business logic based on the comparing of the first command; receiving a second command at the first tier; comparing the second command to the first routing table; routing the second command to the second tier based on the comparing of the second command to the first routing table; and comparing the second command to a second routing table of the second tier, wherein the second routing table identifies commands executed by the second business logic block but does not identify commands executed by the first business logic block.