Granted Patent B2

US 11,490,262 · App. 17/464,193 · Granted Nov 1, 2022

Inventors: Armando Montalvo (Winter Garden, FL); Jeremy Levin (Virginia Beach, VA); Dwight Inman (Travelers Rest, SC); Edward Hummel (Hillsborough, NJ)

Assignee: DIGITAL GLOBAL SYSTEMS, INC.

H04W16/10G06F30/27G06N3/02G06N5/022G06N5/04G06N20/00G06N20/10G06N20/20H04L41/0893H04W24/02H04W72/0453G06N3/0427G06N3/0454H04L41/0894H04W16/14H04W24/08

Abstract

Claims (77)

1. A system for spectrum management in an electromagnetic environment comprising:

at least one monitoring sensor operable to monitor the electromagnetic environment and create measured data based on the electromagnetic environment;

at least one data analysis engine for analyzing the measured data;

at least one application;

a semantic engine including a programmable rules and policy editor, wherein the semantic engine is in network communication with the at least one data analysis engine; and

a tip and cue server;

wherein the semantic engine further includes a language dictionary and syntax component;

wherein the at least one data analysis engine includes a detection engine and a learning engine, wherein the detection engine is operable to automatically detect at least one signal of interest, and wherein the learning engine is operable to learn the electromagnetic environment;

wherein the at least one application includes a resource brokerage application, wherein the resource brokerage application is operable to optimize resources to improve performance of at least one customer application and/or at least one customer device using analyzed data from the at least one data analysis engine and information from the semantic engine;

wherein the programmable rules and policy editor includes at least one rule and/or at least one policy, and wherein one or more of the at least one rule and/or the at least one policy is defined by at least one customer;

wherein the semantic engine is operable to create a semantic map including target data using semantic fingerprinting and a Boolean vector;

wherein the tip and cue server is operable to use analyzed data from the at least one data analysis engine and information from the semantic engine including constraints associated with signal characteristics to create actionable data; and

wherein the tip and cue server is operable to activate an alarm and/or provide at least one report based on the actionable data.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one monitoring sensor includes at least one antenna, at least one antenna array, at least one radio server, and/or at least one software defined radio.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the at least one antenna array includes at least one steerable antenna array.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein one or more of the at least one monitoring sensor is mounted on a drone, on a vehicle, in or on a street light, in or on a traffic pole, and/or on top of a building.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein one or more of the at least one monitoring sensor is integrated with at least one camera to capture video and/or still images.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one data analysis engine further includes an identification engine, a classification engine, and a geolocation engine.

7. The system of claim 6 , wherein the geolocation engine is operable to determine a location of the at least one signal of interest based on an angle of arrival, a time difference of arrival, a frequency difference of arrival, and power distribution ratio measurements.

8. The system of claim 6 , wherein the classification engine is operable to generate a query to a static database to classify the at least one signal of interest.

9. The system of claim 1 , wherein the detection engine is operable to automatically detect the at least one signal of interest using at least one mask.

10. The system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one application further includes a certification and compliance application, wherein the certification and compliance application is operable to determine if the at least one customer application and/or the at least one customer device is behaving according to the at least one rule and/or the at least one policy.

11. The system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one application further includes a survey occupancy application, wherein the survey occupancy application is operable to determine occupancy in frequency bands and schedule occupancy in at least one frequency band.

12. The system of claim 1 , wherein the semantic engine is operable to receive queries, searches, and/or search-related functions using natural language processing (NLP).

13. The system of claim 1 , wherein the actionable data is used to generate at least one knowledge-based decision tree, and wherein statistical properties of the actionable data are computed as the actionable data changes over time.

14. The system of claim 1 , wherein the actionable data indicates that one or more of the at least one signal of interest is behaving like a drone without use of a protocol library, and wherein the drone is detected based on a duty cycle and/or changes in power levels of a signal envelope of the one or more of the at least one signal of interest.

15. The system of claim 1 , wherein the actionable data indicates at least one location for adding at least one macrosite and/or at least one tower.

16. The system of claim 1 , wherein the semantic engine is operable to analyze related data and/or data with similar characteristics to the target data.

17. The system of claim 1 , wherein the semantic engine is operable to use Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI).

18. A system for spectrum management in an electromagnetic environment comprising:

at least one monitoring sensor operable to monitor the electromagnetic environment and create measured data based on the electromagnetic environment;

at least one data analysis engine for analyzing the measured data;

at least one application;

a semantic engine including a programmable rules and policy editor, wherein the semantic engine is in network communication with the at least one data analysis engine; and

a tip and cue server;

wherein the semantic engine further includes a language dictionary and a syntax component;

wherein the at least one data analysis engine includes a detection engine, an identification engine, a classification engine, a geolocation engine, and a learning engine, wherein the detection engine is operable to automatically detect at least one signal of interest, and wherein the learning engine is operable to learn the electromagnetic environment;

wherein the at least one application includes a resource brokerage application, wherein the resource brokerage application is operable to optimize resources to improve performance of at least one customer application and/or at least one customer device using analyzed data from the at least one data analysis engine and information from the semantic engine;

wherein the programmable rules and policy editor includes at least one rule and/or at least one policy, and wherein one or more of the at least one rule and/or the at least one policy is defined by at least one customer;

wherein the semantic engine is operable to create a semantic map including target data using semantic fingerprinting and a Boolean vector;

wherein the tip and cue server is operable to use analyzed data from the at least one data analysis engine and information from the semantic engine including constraints associated with signal characteristics to create actionable data; and

wherein the tip and cue server is operable to activate an alarm and/or provide at least one report based on the actionable data.

19. The system of claim 18 , wherein the learning engine is operable to learn information from the detection engine, the classification engine, the identification engine, and/or the geolocation engine.

20. The system of claim 18 , wherein the actionable data indicates that one or more of the at least one signal is behaving like a drone without use of a protocol library, and wherein the drone is detected based on a duty cycle and/or changes in power levels of a signal envelope of the one or more of the at least one signal of interest.

21. The system of claim 18 , wherein the actionable data indicates t least one location for adding at least one macrosite and/or at least one tower.

22. A method for spectrum management in an electromagnetic environment comprising:

providing a semantic engine including a programmable rules and policy editor, wherein the programmable rules and policy editor includes at least one rule and/or at least one policy, and wherein one or more of the at least one rule and/or the at least one policy is defined by at least one customer;

monitoring the electromagnetic environment using at least one monitoring sensor and creating measured data based on the electromagnetic environment;

analyzing the measured data using at least one data analysis engine, thereby creating analyzed data, wherein the at least one data analysis engine includes a detection engine and a learning engine, and wherein the at least one data analysis engine is in network communication with the semantic engine;

learning the electromagnetic environment using the learning engine;

automatically detecting at least one signal of interest using the detection engine;

the semantic engine creating a semantic map including target data using semantic fingerprinting and a Boolean vector;

optimizing resources to improve performance of at least one customer application and/or at least one customer device using a resource brokerage application, wherein the resource brokerage application uses analyzed data from the at least one data analysis engine and information from the semantic engine;

creating actionable data using a tip and cue server based on the analyzed data from the at least one data analysis engine and information from the semantic engine including constraints associated with signal characteristics; and

the tip and cue server activating an alarm and/or providing at least one report based on the actionable data,

wherein the semantic engine further includes a language dictionary and a syntax component.

23. The method of claim 22 , further including a survey occupancy application determining occupancy in frequency bands and scheduling occupancy in at least one frequency band.

24. The method of claim 22 , further including generating at least one knowledge-based decision tree based on the actionable data, and computing statistical properties of the actionable data as the actionable data changes over time.

25. The method of claim 22 , further including the actionable data indicating that one or more of the at least one signal of interest is behaving like a drone without use of a protocol library and detecting the drone based on a duty cycle and/or changes in power levels of a signal envelope of the one or more of the at least one signal of interest.

26. The method of claim 22 , wherein the actionable data indicates at least one location for adding at least one macrosite and/or at least one tower.

27. A method for spectrum management in an electromagnetic environment comprising:

providing a semantic engine including a programmable rules and policy editor, wherein the programmable rules and policy editor includes at least one rule and/or at least one policy, and wherein one or more of the at least one rule and/or the at least one policy is defined by at least one customer;

monitoring the electromagnetic environment using at least one monitoring sensor and creating measured data based on the electromagnetic environment;

analyzing the measured data using at least one data analysis engine, thereby creating analyzed data, wherein the at least one data analysis engine includes a detection engine, a classification engine, an identification engine, a geolocation engine, and a learning engine, and wherein the at least one data analysis engine is in network communication with the semantic engine;

learning the electromagnetic environment using the learning engine;

automatically detecting at least one signal of interest using the detection engine;

classifying the at least one signal of interest using the classification engine;

identifying the at least one signal of interest using the identification engine;

determining a location of the at least one signal of interest using the geolocation engine;

the semantic engine creating a semantic map including target data using semantic fingerprinting and a Boolean vector;

optimizing resources to improve performance of at least one customer application and/or at least one customer device using a resource brokerage application, wherein the resource brokerage application uses analyzed data from the at least one data analysis engine and information from the semantic engine;

creating actionable data using a tip and cue server based on the analyzed data from the at least one data analysis engine and information from the semantic engine including constraints associated with signal characteristics; and

the tip and cue server activating an alarm and/or providing at least one report based on the actionable data,

wherein the semantic engine further includes a language dictionary and a syntax component.

28. The method of claim 27 , wherein the learning engine learns information from the detection engine, the classification engine, the identification engine, and/or the geolocation engine.

29. The method of claim 27 , further including the actionable data indicating that one or more of the at least one signal of interest is behaving like a drone without use of a protocol library and detecting the drone based on a duty cycle and/or changes in power levels of a signal envelope of the one or more of the at least one signal of interest.

30. The method of claim 27 , wherein the actionable data indicates at least one location for adding at least one macrosite and/or at least one tower.

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