Patent ID: 8102799

Claim:
A method of managing a multi-room property having a plurality of end devices, comprising: opening a first parent wireless device to child discovery; causing a first of the plurality of end devices to associate with the first parent wireless device; causing a second of the plurality of end devices to associate with the first parent wireless device; opening a second parent wireless device to child discovery; causing the first parent wireless device to associate with the second parent wireless device; facilitating intermittent wireless communications of control messages from the first parent wireless device to at least one of the first and second end devices; facilitating intermittent wireless communications of status messages from at least one of the first and second end devices to the first parent wireless device; the first parent wireless device transferring one or more control messages received from the second parent wireless device to at least one of the first and second end devices; and limiting the wireless communications of control messages transmitted by the first parent wireless device to child wireless devices that associated themselves with the first parent wireless device during the first parent wireless device child discovery.