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US 9,882,606 B2Granted
Hybrid guided surface wave communication
AssigneeCPG Technologies, LLC
InventorsJames F. Corum, Kenneth L. Corum, Basil F. Pinzone, Jr., Joseph F. Pinzone
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Abstract
Disclosed is hybrid communication in which a first message from a guided surface wave probe node is embedded in a guided surface wave, and a second message from a guided surface wave receive node uses a different messaging mechanism.
Claims20
A guided surface wave receive node, comprising:
- a guided surface wave receive structure configured to obtain electrical energy from a guided surface wave traveling along a terrestrial medium, the guided surface wave being generated by a guided surface waveguide probe, the guided surface wave comprising an embedded message;
- an electrical load coupled to the guided surface wave receive structure, the electrical load being experienced as a load at an excitation source coupled to the guided surface waveguide probe;
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- a communications transceiver configured to establish a communications channel via a different message mechanism from the embedded message.
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A guided surface wave receive node, comprising:
- a guided surface receive structure configured to receive electrical energy in a form of a guided surface wave launched from a guided surface waveguide probe, the electrical energy modulated to transmit a message via the guided surface waveguide probe;
- an electrical load coupled to the guided surface wave receive structure, the electrical energy being supplied to the electrical load;
- a demodulator coupled to the guided surface wave receive structure, the demodulator configured to extract the message from the guided surface wave;
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- a communications transceiver configured to communicate with a plurality of remote guided surface wave receive nodes via a different messaging mechanism from the message.
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A method for hybrid two-way communication using a guided surface wave, comprising:
- receiving, using a guided surface wave receive structure at a guided surface wave receive node, electrical energy in a form of the guided surface wave launched from a guided surface waveguide probe, the electrical energy modulated according to a first message embedded within the guided surface wave by the guided surface waveguide probe;
- supplying the electrical energy to an electrical load coupled to the guided surface wave receive structure;
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- broadcasting, using a communications transmitter at the guided surface wave receive node, a second message via a different messaging mechanism from the first message.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.