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US 9,432,108 B2Granted
Augmented aircraft communication system
AssigneeADS-B Technologies, LLC
InventorsCarlos Maria Ilarregui, Michael Steven Melum, Robert C. Nelson
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Abstract
Subject matter disclosed herein relates to aircraft communication, and more particularly to a non line-of-sight communication path to augment a line-of-sight communication path.
Claims27
A method comprising:
- acquiring, from an output signal port of a directional coupler, a signal representation of tracking parameters to be transmitted by a primary communication system via a line-of-sight communication link;
- providing the signal representation to a secondary non line-of-sight communication system;
- reformatting the signal representation to be compatible or compliant with the secondary non line-of-sight communication system;
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- transmitting the reformatted signal representation using the non line-of-sight communication system via a non line-of-sight communication link that includes at least one communication relay, the secondary non line-of-sight communication system to utilize a slower pulse train than the primary communication system.
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A method comprising:
- receiving tracking parameters via a secondary non line-of-sight communication link that includes at least one communication relay;
- reformatting the received tracking parameters to be compatible or compliant with a primary line-of-sight communication system;
- acquiring, from an output signal port of directional coupler a signal representation of the reformatted tracking parameters, wherein the acquiring is performed non-invasively with respect to the primary line-of-sight communication system;
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- providing the signal representation of reformatted tracking parameters to the primary line-of-sight communication system, wherein
- the secondary non line-of-sight communication link to utilize a slower pulse train than the primary line-of-sight communication system.
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An apparatus comprising:
- a directional coupler having an output signal port from which to acquire a signal representation of tracking parameters to be transmitted by a primary communication system via a line-of-sight communication link;
- a secondary non line-of-sight communication system to receive the signal representation of tracking parameters;
- a signal processor to reformat the signal representation of tracking parameters to be compatible or compliant with the secondary non line-of-sight communication system;
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- a transmitter to transmit the reformatted signal representation of tracking parameters via a use of the secondary non line-of-sight communication system via a non line-of-sight communication link to include at least one communication relay, the secondary non line-of-sight communication system to utilize a slower pulse train than the primary communication system.
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An apparatus comprising:
- a receiver of a secondary non line-of-sight communication system to receive aircraft tracking parameters via a non line-of-sight communication link that includes at least one communication relay;
- a signal processor to reformat the received aircraft tracking parameters to be compatible or compliant with a primary line-of-sight communication system, and
- a directional coupler having an output signal port from which to acquire a signal representation of the reformatted aircraft tracking parameters and to provide the signal representation of the reformatted aircraft tracking parameters to the primary line-of-sight communication system, wherein
- the secondary non line-of-sight communication system to utilize a slower pulse train than the primary line-of-sight communication system.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.