Patent ID: 7852231

Claim:
A control system, comprising: one or more master devices; one or more slave devices comprising manually operated switches and operably coupled to corresponding loads; and at least one radio frequency communication interface for operably coupling the master and slave devices; wherein one or more of the master devices remotely control the operation of one or more of the slave devices; wherein one or more of the master devices are operable to assign one or more of the slave devices to a delayed off mode of operation; wherein one or more of the master devices are operable to define a time delay associated with each slave device assigned to the delayed off mode of operation; wherein one or more of the master devices activate the delayed off mode of operation for one or more of the slave devices; wherein during the delayed mode of operation for a particular slave device, the particular slave device delays a transition for the corresponding load from on to off by the time delay associated with the particular slave device; and wherein during the delayed mode of operation for the particular slave device, the particular slave device delays the transition for the corresponding load from on to off by the time delay associated with the particular slave device upon depression of the manually operated switch of the particular slave device for a predetermined time period.