US 12,084,308 B2
Super group architecture with advanced building wide dispatching logic—distributed group architecture
Daniel S. Williams, Southington, CT (US); and Jannah A. Stanley, Portland, CT (US)
Assigned to OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY, Farmington, CT (US)
Filed by OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY, Farmington, CT (US)
Filed on Jul. 26, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/522,911.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/712,348, filed on Jul. 31, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2020/0039783 A1, Feb. 6, 2020
Int. Cl. B66B 1/24 (2006.01); B66B 1/28 (2006.01); B66B 1/34 (2006.01); B66B 1/46 (2006.01); B66B 3/00 (2006.01)
CPC B66B 1/2458 (2013.01) [B66B 1/28 (2013.01); B66B 1/3446 (2013.01); B66B 1/468 (2013.01); B66B 3/002 (2013.01); B66B 2201/103 (2013.01); B66B 2201/226 (2013.01); B66B 2201/4615 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of operating a dispatcher of an elevator group of a building elevator system having a plurality of elevator systems organized into multiple elevator groups, the method comprising:
receiving an elevator call routed from a redirector that received the elevator call, the elevator call including a desired destination;
transmitting elevator status data from the elevator group to one or more other elevator groups of the building elevator system;
receiving elevator status data from each of the one or more other elevator groups of the building elevator system;
determining a verdict depicting whether an elevator car of the elevator group is best to serve the elevator call in response to the elevator status data of each of the one or more other elevator groups of the building elevator system; and
transmitting the verdict to a redirector of the building elevator system, wherein the redirector is configured to call an elevator car in response to the verdict.