Using harmonics for fulfilling multiple jobs simultaneously
AssigneeRaytheon Company
InventorsWilliam B. Noble, Kevin Yang, Christopher J. Behrens
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Abstract
A method can include determining whether, based on job data and in completing a first job of jobs with a transmission at a fundamental frequency, a harmonic frequency of the fundamental frequency satisfies a second job of the jobs, and transmitting the transmission with the fundamental frequency and the harmonic frequency to complete the first and second jobs, respectively and simultaneously.
Claims18
A device comprising:
- transmit circuitry;
- a memory including job data indicating characteristics of jobs to be completed using the transmit circuitry, the characteristics indicating a frequency, power, and location of a transmission required to complete a job of the jobs;
- at least one hardware processor coupled to the transmit circuitry and the memory, the at least one hardware processor configured to:
- determine whether, based on the job characteristics and in completing a first job of the jobs with a signal at a fundamental frequency, a harmonic frequency of the fundamental frequency satisfies all characteristics of a second job of the jobs, the first job associated with a first device and the second job associated with a different, second device;
- in response to a determination that the harmonic frequency of the fundamental frequency does not satisfy all characteristics of the second job, adjusting a beam width of the fundamental frequency of the signal so that the harmonic frequency of the signal satisfies the second job;
- and
- cause the transmit circuitry to transmit the signal including the fundamental frequency and the harmonic frequency to fulfill the first and second jobs, respectively and simultaneously.
A method of completing jobs simultaneously, the method comprising:
- determining, by at least one hardware processor of a device, whether, based on job data and in completing a first job of jobs with a transmission at a fundamental frequency, a harmonic frequency of the fundamental frequency satisfies all characteristics of a second job of the jobs, the first job associated with a first device and the second job associated with a different, second device;
- in response to a determination that the harmonic frequency of the fundamental frequency does not satisfy all characteristics of the second job, controlling the transmit circuitry to adjust a direction of the fundamental frequency so that the fundamental frequency of the signal satisfies the first job and the harmonic frequency of the signal satisfies the second job;
- and
- transmitting, by transmit circuitry of the device, the transmission with the fundamental frequency and the harmonic frequency to complete the first and second jobs, respectively and simultaneously.
At least one non-transitory machine-readable storage device including instructions stored thereon that, when executed by a machine, configure the machine to perform operations comprising:
- determining whether, based on job data stored in a memory and in completing a first job of jobs with a transmission at a fundamental frequency, a harmonic frequency of the transmission satisfies all characteristics of a second job of the jobs, the first job associated with a first device and the second job associated with a different, second device;
- in response to a determination that the harmonic frequency of the fundamental frequency does not satisfy all characteristics of the second job, adjusting a beam width of the fundamental frequency of the signal so that the harmonic frequency of the signal satisfies the second job;
- and
- producing one or more signals that cause transmit circuitry to transmit the transmission with the fundamental frequency and the harmonic frequency to complete the first and second jobs, respectively and simultaneously.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.