Patent ID: 8549422

Claim:
A graphical method for setting up data sharing between controllers comprising: dragging and dropping two or more BACnet devices on a network wiresheet in a graphic display; specifying one or more devices as a source device; specifying one or more devices as a destination device; drawing a line between a source device and a destination device to construct a link between the source and destination devices and wherein drawing the line between the source device and the destination device to construct a link between the source and destination devices automatically launches a dialog box which displays source and destination properties; selecting a source property for the source device; selecting a destination property for the destination device; binding the source and destination devices having a link between them; and accessing a link-manager view in the display to observe the devices and links constructed among them; wherein each of the two or more BACnet devices represents a respective BACnet controller; wherein binding the devices comprises downloading the devices and links to the respective controllers that the devices represent to establish a basis for data sharing between the controllers; and wherein: the source property is selected from a group consisting of space temperature, lighting, damper, set point and the like; the destination property is selected from a group consisting of space temperature, damper, lighting, set point, and the like.