Patent ID: 7590457

Claim:
A method for bonding a lighting device to a lighting system, in which a master controller of the system, which is remote from the lighting device, is configured to selectively access a slave controller of the lighting device over a wireless connection for storing an identification (ID) of the system in the slave controller in case no system identification has been stored yet in the slave controller and for controlling the lighting device in case an identification stored in the slave controller is identical to the identification of the system with the accessing master controller, the method comprising: upon powering up of the lighting device, if its associated slave controller contains a system identification of a system, attempting to establish a communication by the slave controller with a master of the system; and if the attempting by the slave controller fails to establish the communication, setting the slave controller, for a duration of a time window and with reduced communication security, to accept a clear message indicating that the slave controller is allowed to neglect the stored ID.