Patent ID: 8214496

Claim:
A method for storing information to operate a gateway device in a control network, the method comprising: a remote management device storing an identification associated with an account associated with a gateway device, a serial number associated with the gateway device, and a key associated with the gateway device in a location remote from a location of the gateway device; the remote management device populating a table of a gateway registry with the serial number associated with the gateway device, a server location of the gateway server associated with an account associated with the gateway device, and the identification associated with the gateway device, wherein the serial number, the server location, and the identification are associated with each other in the table of the gateway registry; and the remote management device populating a table of the gateway server with the identification associated with the gateway device and the key associated with the gateway device, wherein the identification and the key are associated with each other in the gateway server and wherein the identification and key are associated with the account associated with the gateway device in the gateway server.