Systems, methods, and devices for electronic spectrum management
AssigneeDigital Global Systems, Inc.
InventorsRonald C. Dzierwa, Gabriel R. Garcia, Daniel Carbajal
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Abstract
Devices and methods enable optimizing a signal of interest based on identifying and analyzing the signal of interest based on radio frequency energy measurements. Signal data is compared with stored data to identify the signal of interest. Signal degradation data is calculated based on noise figure parameters, hardware parameters and environment parameters. The signal of interest is optimized based on the signal degradation data. Terrain data is also operable to be used for optimizing the signal of interest.
Claims20
A spectrum analysis and management system, comprising:
- a radio frequency (RF) receiver;
- at least one processor operable to receive data from the RF receiver;
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- wherein the at least one processor is coupled to a memory;
- wherein the RF receiver is operable to send RF measurements to the at least one processor;
- wherein the at least one processor is operable to determine a geographic location of the at least one signal of interest based on received location input data associated with the RF measurements;
- wherein the at least one processor is operable to determine a time associated with the RF measurements and convert the received RF measurements into spectral representation data;
- wherein the at least one processor is operable to analyze the spectral representation data to identify the at least one signal of interest and determine at least one signal parameter of the signal of interest;
- wherein the at least one processor is operable to compare the at least one signal parameter of the at least one signal of interest to signal characteristic listing data in the memory to determine whether the at least one signal parameter of the at least one signal of interest matches corresponding signal parameters in the signal characteristic listing data;
- wherein the at least one processor is operable to identify the at least one signal of interest for the received location input data and RF measurements based upon whether the at least one signal parameter of the at least one signal of interest matches any signal parameters in the signal characteristic listing data;
- wherein the signal parameter data and the time associated with the RF measurements are stored in a database in the memory;
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A spectrum analysis and management system comprising:
- a radio frequency (RF) receiver for receiving signal data;
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- at least one computer operable to receive data from the RF receiver;
- wherein the at least one computer is operable to determine spectral components of at least one signal of interest;
- wherein the at least one computer is operable to classify the at least one signal of interest based upon the spectral components of the at least one signal of interest in comparison to data in a database, including the received signal data, a time associated with the received signal data, and historical spectral components;
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- wherein the database includes hardware parameters, environment parameters and terrain data to calculate signal degradation data for identifying the at least one signal of interest.
A method of using a spectrum analysis and management system, comprising:
- at least one processor receiving signal data from a radio frequency (RF) receiver;
- the at least one processor determining spectral components of at least one signal of interest based on the signal data received from the RF receiver;
- the at least one processor determining signal characteristics including modulation type, bandwidth, and/or communication protocol;
- the at least one processor generating a degradation value and degradation data associated with noise parameters, hardware parameters, and environmental parameters for the at least one signal of interest;
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- the at least one processor classifying the at least one signal of interest based upon the spectral components of the at least one signal of interest in comparison to historical data including a device location and time associated with the signal data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.