Systems and methods for detection of transmission facilities
AssigneeBINJ Laboratories, Inc.
InventorJoseph S. Noonan
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Abstract
In embodiments, a method of detecting a transmitting device within an obstruction rich environment is disclosed. The method may involve detecting the transmitting device with a wireless transmission detection facility; communicating signal information relating to the detected transmitting device from the wireless transmission detection facility to a central unit; determining the location of the transmitting device; displaying information of the detection and location of the transmitting device through a user interface; and providing an action facility for causing actions related to the detected transmitting device.
Claims10
A method, operable in communication system, for identifying and managing wireless devices, comprising the steps of:
- outputting a plurality of frequency signals in a plurality of frequency bands;
- receiving a return from selected ones of said plurality of frequencies, said return produced by an antenna associated with a non-transmitting wireless device;
- formulating a disturbance pattern based on said received returns, wherein said disturbance pattern includes said return from selected ones of said plurality of transmitted frequencies and an indication of a least one of said plurality of transmitted frequencies lacking a return, said indication representing a null in the disturbance pattern;
- correlating the null associated with at least one of the plurality of frequency bands with at least one predetermined null pattern;
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- determining an identity of said non-transmitting wireless device based on positive correlation of the null in the disturbance pattern with at least one of said at least one predetermined null pattern.
A system for identifying and managing wireless devices comprising:
- a transceiving system;
- and
- a processor configured to
- cause the transceiving system to transmit a plurality of frequency signals in a plurality of frequency bands;
- receive a return from selected ones of said plurality of frequencies, said return produced by an antenna associated with a non-transmitting wireless device;
- formulate a disturbance pattern based on said received returns for each of said plurality of frequency bands, wherein said disturbance pattern including said return from selected ones of said plurality of transmitted frequencies and an indication of those plurality of transmitted frequencies lacking a return, said indication representing a null in the disturbance pattern;
- correlate the null in the disturbance pattern associated with at least one of the plurality of frequency bands with predetermined null patterns associated with a corresponding one of the plurality of frequency bands;
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- determine an identity of a wireless device based on said the null having a positive correlation with one of the predetermined null patterns.
A system for identifying a wireless device comprising:
- a transmitter configured to transmit a plurality of frequencies between a first frequency and a second frequency, the first frequency and the second frequency representing a frequency band;
- a receiver configured to receive return signals corresponding to selected ones of the plurality of transmitted frequencies;
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- a processor configured to:
- identify selected ones of the plurality of transmitted frequencies lacking a return;
- formulate a null pattern comprising the identified plurality of transmitted frequencies lacking a return;
- compare the formulated null pattern with a plurality of predetermined patterns, said predetermined patterns corresponding to wireless devices;
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- identify the wireless device based on the formulated null pattern matching one of the at least one predetermined patterns.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.