Abstract:
A communication protocol for ultra-wideband communications is provided. The present invention provides compatibility and interoperability between ultra-wideband communications devices within various types of networks. In one embodiment, combined, or interleaved data frames having both high and low data transfer rate capability are provided. The low data transfer rate may be used for initial discovery of the type of network that is being accessed, and the high data transfer rate may be used to quickly transfer data within networks that have a high data transfer rate capability. This Abstract is provided for the sole purpose of complying with the Abstract requirement rules that allow a reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the disclosure contained herein. This Abstract is submitted with the explicit understanding that it will not be used to interpret or to limit the scope or the meaning of the claims.
Abstract:
An RF transmitter includes a reference signal generator, a signal generator, and a mixer. The reference signal generator provides a reference signal that has a prescribed or desired frequency. The signal generator provides an operating signal in response to a selection signal. The operating signal has a frequency that equals the frequency of the reference signal multiplied by a number. The mixer mixes the operating signal with another signal to generate a transmission signal. An RF receiver includes a first mixer, a second mixer, an integrator/sampler, and a signal generator. The first mixer receives as its inputs an input RF signal and a second input signal, and mixes its input signals to generate a mixed signal. The integrator/sampler receives the mixed signal and processes it to provide an output signal. The signal generator provides an operating signal in response to a selection signal. The operating signal has a frequency equal to the frequency of a reference signal, multiplied by a number. The second mixer mixes the operating signal with a template signal to generate the second input signal of the first mixer.
Abstract:
System and methods for generating ultra-wide band communication signal including: filtering a digital data pulse having a data clocking rate by mixing a filter-function pulse with the digital data pulse; generating a harmonic of a clock oscillator which appears as a center frequency of emission of frequency spread spectrum signal; and mixing the filtered digital data pulse with the harmonic of the clock oscillator signal, characterized in that the clock oscillator frequency, the data clocking rate, and the center frequency of signal emissions are harmonically related are disclosed.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to secret key generation and authentication methods that are based on joint randomness not shared by others (JRNSO), in which unique channel response between two communication terminals generates a secret key. Multiple network access points use a unique physical location of a receiving station to increase user data security. High data rate communication data is encrypted by generating a random key and a pseudo-random bit stream. A configurable interleaving is achieved by introduction of JRNSO bits to an encoder used for error-correction codes. Databases of user data are also protected by JRNSO-based key mechanisms. Additional random qualities are induced on the joint channel using MIMO eigen-beamforming, antenna array deflection, polarization selection, pattern deformation, and path selection by beamforming or time correlation. Gesturing induces randomness according to uniquely random patterns of a human user's arm movements inflected to the user device.
Abstract:
A high capacity wireless ultra-wideband (UWB) data communication system includes a transmitter having a signal generator for supplying UWB signals and a receiver for receiving the UWB signals. In one embodiment, the system also includes at least two antennas at the transmitter and/or at the receiver. The transmit antennas are configured so that the cross-correlation between their emissions is sufficiently low that reception of the signals is substantially improved. The receive antennas likewise exhibit low cross-correlation.
Abstract:
A radio paging system includes one or more transmitters (12) for sending radio signals to pagers (14) within a paging service area (10). Receivers (22) are located within the service area to receive low power transmissions from the pagers. These receivers are coupled to omnidirectional antennas (24, 26) that are disposed in pairs to form a two branch diversity antenna system. Each pair of antennas is located in a cell that forms part of a four cell cluster (66), and each pair of antennas is located on an axis (42) running through its cell. The axes are selected to provide a high and uniform level of diversity gain throughout the cluster.
Abstract:
An acknowledge back (ack-back) pager is provided for receiving paging signals from a central paging station. The central paging station transmits a group of message signals to a group of ack-back pagers which are addressed as a group. The users of the group of addressed ack-back pagers indicate a response to their respective pagers thus providing ack-back data. The pagers in the group of addressed ack-back pagers then simultaneously transmit back to the central station their ack-back data on different frequency sub-bands, a different frequency sub-band being dynamically allocated to each of the pagers in the group. Each ack-back pager determines whether the paging signals received thereby exhibits a signal level less than a predetermined threshold level. If the paging signals received by a particular ack-back pager exhibit a signal level less than such predetermined threshold level, then the pager transmits back to the central station at a first output power level. Otherwise, the pager transmits at a second ouput power level substantially less than the first output power level. In this manner, the problem of the ack-back signal from a particular pager being so strong at the central station as to mask other simultaneous ack-back signals is substantially ameliorated.
Abstract:
In one embodiment, a UWB transmission system includes a pair of crossed linearly polarized antennas, one of which is fed with a UWB signal current, while the second is fed with a temporally orthogonal UWB signal such as the time-derivative of the UWB signal current. The resultant elliptically polarized radiated fields are simultaneously orthogonal in space and orthogonal in time. In another transmission system, a loop and a co-located dipole are fed with the same current to generate signal exhibiting elliptical polarization. When the energies of the transmissions from each antenna are equal, the polarization is circular. Thus a UWB transmitting and receiving system is shown that utilizes signals that are simultaneously spatially orthogonal and temporally orthogonal, and the several combinations of those signal and polarization states encode data for transmission.
Abstract:
A space efficient magnetic antenna is disclosed for use in tracking, positioning and other applications. In a preferred embodiment, a space efficient magnetic antenna system comprises a first magnetic antenna with a first null axis aligned within a predetermined plane and a second magnetic antenna having a second null axis aligned substantially orthogonal to a first null axis. A second magnetic antenna system lies in a minimal coupling orientation with respect to a first magnetic antenna system. Additionally, a first magnetic antenna may further comprise a plurality of interconnected magnetic antenna elements. A space efficient magnetic antenna system may include an RF module. An RF module may alternately utilize a first magnetic antenna and a second magnetic antenna, or an RF module may drive a second magnetic antenna in phase quadrature with respect to a first magnetic antenna. In still further embodiments, a space efficient magnetic antenna system may further include a third mutually orthogonal magnetic antenna.
Abstract:
A modulation scheme (600) useful in a voice paging system in which both of two orthogonal modulation components (500 and 510) are used to carry two halves of a single voice message destined for a receiver, or two separate voice messages for a receiver. The single voice message is transmitted in half the time.