Patent ID: 7446671

Claim:
In a wireless-controlled lighting system including a control master and a group of lighting units, all communicating via commonly-received wireless transmissions, a method of associating said group of lighting units, each having a unique identification code, with respective control elements of a remote control, said method comprising: a. each of the lighting units transmitting a modulated light signal carrying the respective identification code; b. positioning the remote control at a location where it receives the modulated light signal from only one of the lighting units; c. activating a selected one of the control elements of the remote control to associate said control element with the lighting unit transmitting the modulated light signal being received; d. transmitting from the remote control to the control master a signal identifying the unique identification code for the lighting unit and the control element with which said lighting unit has been associated; e. repeating each of steps b through d for each of the remaining lighting units in the group, where each lighting unit in the group includes an adaptable device which selectively operates as either a control master device or a slave device.