Patent ID: 8370722

Claim:
A method for managing a configuration of a lighting controller using a lighting system controller, the method comprising: requesting, by the lighting system controller, a first plurality of cyclic redundancy checks from the lighting controller; receiving, by the lighting system controller, the first plurality of cyclic redundancy checks from the lighting controller, the first plurality of cyclic redundancy checks being representative of first configuration data stored on the lighting controller; comparing, by the lighting system controller, the first plurality of cyclic redundancy checks from the lighting controller with a second plurality of cyclic redundancy checks stored on the lighting system controller to produce a comparison result, the second plurality of cyclic redundancy checks being representative of second configuration data stored on the lighting system controller; identifying, responsive to the comparison result indicating an inequality, a synchronization method selected from a plurality of synchronization methods; and synchronizing, based on the comparison result and the identified synchronization method, the first configuration data with the second configuration data.