Patent ID: 8517149

Claim:
An elevator system, comprising: at least one hall call fixture that is useable by a passenger to place a hall call; a first controller that communicates directly with the hall call fixture to directly receive a hall call signal that indicates a passenger's desire to board an elevator car at a particular landing, the first controller is associated with at least one elevator car for assigning a hall call request to the at least one elevator car; at least one destination entry device that is useable by a passenger to enter a destination request; a second controller that communicates directly with the destination entry device to directly receive a destination request that indicates a passenger's desire to be carried to a particular level, the destination request originating outside of an elevator car, the second controller is associated with at least one elevator car for assigning a destination request to the at least one elevator car, the second controller is configured to determine whether a selected condition will be satisfied if a received destination request is serviced by an elevator car associated with the second controller and to handle the received destination request if the condition will be satisfied; and a cross dispatcher that is configured to communicate with the second controller to receive an indication of the destination request from the second controller if the condition will not be satisfied and to handle the destination request by providing an indication of a hall call signal corresponding to the received destination request to the first controller.