Abstract:
A technique is used in a selective call communication system (100) and in a broadcast communication system (106) to provide additional information about a broadcast to a selective call device (111). A broadcast receiver (109) receives a broadcast that includes a prompt (220), such as a FLEX logo, and an information address signal (305), such as an inaudible portion of the sound portion of the broadcast. The prompt indicates that additional information is available in a message to be transmitted by the selective call communication system. The selective call device receives the information address signal when activated to do so in response to the prompt. The selective call device receives and decodes an information address from the information address signal and uses it to recover the message at a protocol position indicated by the information address. The additional information is then recovered from the message.
Abstract:
A system (100) and method (400) for improving Radio Frequency (RF) Antenna Simulation is provided. The method can include determining (402) a proximity of an antenna (250) to a scattering structure (210), determining (410) a switching distance to the scattering structure that establishes when to switch the antenna on (416) and off (418) from a composite antenna pattern to a free space antenna pattern, and predicting RF coverage of the antenna responsive to the switching. The switching distance can be a function of a material type and a surface geometry of the scattering structure and a wavelength of the antenna. The method can also include evaluating a sensory mismatch in the antenna, and using a composite antenna pattern corresponding to the sensory mismatch.
Abstract:
A method (10 or 500) and system (200) for simulating and improving accuracy of empirical propagation models for radio frequency coverage can include a display (210) and a processor (202) coupled to the display. The processor can be operable to input (502 and 504) low-resolution data and high-resolution data, select (506) an area of interest being simulated for empirical propagation models, and classify (508) receivers as belonging to a predetermined type of object. If a receiver in the area of interest is a low resolution object, then normal losses can be applied (510). If a receiver in the area of interest is a high resolution object, then losses specific to the high resolution object can be applied (512). If a receiver is classified as being inside a building, then the processor can further compute (516) a median power for a location of the receiver and add in-building penetration losses.
Abstract:
A system and method for determining a most likely material composition of an object (102). At least one respective stored radiation polarization transformation (500) is stored for at least one material composition at a plurality of wavelengths. A transmitted electromagnetic signal (112) with at least one wavelength within the plurality of wavelengths and that has a predetermined transmitted polarization profile is transmitted. The transmitted signal (112) encounters an object (102) and is received as at least one received signal (116, 118). Processing determines a respective received polarization for each of the at least one wavelength of the received signal (116, 118), determines a respective calculated polarization transformation between the transmitted polarization profile and the received polarization of the respective wavelength, for each of the at least one wavelength,. The processing also compares the respective calculated polarization transformations to the at least one respective stored radiation polarization transformations (500) for at least one of the plurality of material compositions and based on those comparisons, estimates a most likely material composition for the object (102).
Abstract:
A combined polarimetric and coherent processing receiver (2300) can include at least one antenna (730 and 740), at least one receiver front end (700 and 704), a multipath processor (702, 706, and 714), a polarimetric signal processor (708), and a coherent processor (712). The multipath processor can be a plurality of correlators (702 and 706) coupled to the receiver front end(s) and can process the desired signal arriving from multiple paths coupled to the receiver. The polarimetric signal processor which can include a plurality of adaptive polarimetric filters (710) can be coupled to the multipath processor and can polarimetrically filter signals that are distinguishable from the desired signal. The coherent processor can be coupled to the polarimetric signal processor and can coherently combine the polarimetric filtered signal. The coherent processor can include time varying complex coefficients (714) and a signal combiner (716).
Abstract:
An apparatus and method for mixed-media call formatting. A preferred format for a call can be determined from different mixed media communication formats. The mixed media communication formats can include a text format and an audible speech format. A media format mode signal can be sent or received. The media format mode signal can indicate a preferred format for a call. The call can be connected in the preferred format.
Abstract:
An antenna system (205) includes an antenna structure (215), a receiver (220), and an antenna system controller (225). The antenna structure includes an arrangement of antennas (237), a signal combiner (240), and a switching matrix (235). The arrangement of antennas is designed to have a set of antenna element separations that are optimized to provide lowest correlation coefficients of intercepted radio signals for a corresponding set of electromagnetic environment types that vary from a very low density scattering environment to a maximum density scattering environment. The antennas (230), (231), (232), (233), (234) in the antenna arrangement each include at least one element that has a common polarization. There is at least one antenna that is a dual polarized antenna. The antenna system selects an antenna element pair that corresponds to the environment type which it is operating and thereby receives a best combined signal.
Abstract:
Communication systems include a transmitter that modulates a radio signal transmitted from two differently polarized antennas during a state time in which a wave state of the radio signal conveys information and is based on one or more polarization states selected from a constellation of polarization states comprising at least three polarization states. The communication system includes a receiver that intercepts the radio signal by two differently polarized antennas during the state time, and demodulates the signal. The polarization states may identify user devices or may quantify a portion of the information intended for a user device.