# US 9,882,606 B2 · Hybrid guided surface wave communication > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 9,882,606 B2 - Document ID: US9882606B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 15/252,709 - Filed: 2016-08-31 - Published: 2017-03-09 - Granted: 2018-01-30 - Earliest claimed: 2015-09-09 - Assignees: CPG Technologies, LLC - Applicants: CPG Technologies, LLC - Inventors: James F. Corum; Kenneth L. Corum; Basil F. Pinzone, Jr.; Joseph F. Pinzone - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US9882606B2 ## CPC - H04B 3/52: Systems for transmission between fixed stations via waveguides - H04B 10/50: Transmitters - H04B: TRANSMISSION ## 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. ## Claims ### Claim 1 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; and a communications transceiver configured to establish a communications channel via a different message mechanism from the embedded message. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The guided surface wave receive node of claim 1, wherein the electrical load comprises the communications transceiver. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The guided surface wave receive node of claim 1, wherein the communications transceiver is configured to establish the communications channel with a remote guided surface wave receive node via the different message mechanism. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The guided surface wave receive node of claim 3, wherein the communications channel comprises a two-way communications channel with the remote guided surface wave receive node. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The guided surface wave receive node of claim 1, wherein the communications transceiver is configured to broadcast a message to a plurality of remote guided surface wave receive nodes, the message being transmitted via the different message mechanism. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The guided surface wave receive node of claim 1, wherein the communications transceiver comprises an optical transmitter. ### Claim 7 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; and a communications transceiver configured to communicate with a plurality of remote guided surface wave receive nodes via a different messaging mechanism from the message. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The guided surface wave receive node of claim 7, wherein the message comprises a first message, and wherein the communications transceiver is configured to communicate a second message via a broadcast to the plurality of remote guided surface wave receive nodes. ### Claim 9 (depends on 7) The guided surface wave receive node of claim 7, wherein the communications transceiver is configured to communicate with a communication receiver associated with the guided surface waveguide probe. ### Claim 10 (depends on 7) The guided surface wave receive node of claim 7, wherein the communications transceiver comprises a collision avoider. ### Claim 11 (depends on 7) The guided surface wave receive node of claim 7, wherein a probe node comprises the guided surface waveguide probe. ### Claim 12 (depends on 7) The guided surface wave receive node of claim 7, wherein the message comprises a first message, and wherein the communications transceiver comprises a plurality of receivers, each of the plurality of receivers configured to receive a different portion of a second message from the plurality of remote guided surface wave receive nodes. ### Claim 13 (depends on 7) The guided surface wave receive node of claim 7, wherein the message is embedded by modulating at least one of an amplitude, a frequency, or a phase. ### Claim 14 (depends on 7) The guided surface wave receive node of claim 7, wherein the communications transceiver comprises a plurality of transmitters. ### Claim 15 (depends on 14) The guided surface wave receive node of claim 14, wherein different portions of a second message are transmitted by different individual ones of the plurality of transmitters. ### Claim 16 (depends on 7) The guided surface wave receive node of claim 7, wherein the electrical load at the receive node is experienced as a load at an excitation source coupled to the guided surface waveguide probe, and wherein a second message is transmitted as a pattern of electrical load variations to a probe node associated with the guided surface waveguide probe. ### Claim 17 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; and broadcasting, using a communications transmitter at the guided surface wave receive node, a second message via a different messaging mechanism from the first message. ### Claim 18 (depends on 17) The method of claim 17, wherein the communications transmitter comprises a plurality of transmitters. ### Claim 19 (depends on 17) The method of claim 17, further comprising extracting the first message from the modulated electrical energy. ### Claim 20 (depends on 17) The method of claim 17, wherein the second message is transmitted, at least in part, as a radiated electromagnetic field to a plurality of guided surface wave receive nodes.