Granted Patent B2

US 11,284,267 · App. 17/477,065 · Granted Mar 22, 2022

Inventors: Armando Montalvo (Winter Garden, FL); Bryce Simmons (Maplewood, NJ)

Assignee: DIGITAL GLOBAL SYSTEMS, INC.

H04W16/10G06F30/27G06N3/02G06N20/00G06N20/10G06N20/20H04L41/0893H04W24/02H04W72/0453

Abstract

Claims (66)

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; and

a tip and cue server;

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

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;

wherein the programmable rules and policy editor includes at least one rule and/or at least one policy; and

wherein the tip and cue server is operable to use analyzed data from the at least one data analysis engine to create actionable data.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the tip and cue server is operable to activate an alarm and/or provide at least one report based on the actionable data.

3. 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.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein one or more of the at least one monitoring sensor is mounted on a drone, 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 geolocation engine is operable to determine the 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.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the geolocation engine is operable to use statistical approximations to remove error causes from noise, timing and power measurements, multipath, and non-line of sight (NLOS) measurements.

8. The system of claim 7 , wherein the statistical approximations include maximum likelihood, nearest neighbor, Kalman filter, least squares approximation, or Bayesian filter.

9. The system of claim 1 , wherein the geolocation engine includes passive methods of geolocation, wherein the passive methods of geolocation include single directional beam antenna response, multidirectional beam antenna response, multi-antenna element response, line of bearing (LOB)-to-position solutions, general optimization, phase interferometry, beamforming, conventional array manifold processing approaches, and/or high-resolution array manifold processing approaches using signals subspace, digital pre-distortion (DPD), convex programming, and/or distributed swarm approaches.

10. The system of claim 1 , wherein the geolocation engine is operable to utilize graphical geolocation techniques, and wherein the graphical geolocation techniques include an image comparison between a two-dimensional map or a three-dimensional map of possible outputs and the analyzed data.

11. The system of claim 10 , wherein the graphical geolocation techniques include topology to create the three-dimensional map of the possible outputs.

12. The system of claim 1 , wherein the geolocation engine is operable to use spinning direction finding via rotating directional antennas and estimate a direction of arrival of an emitter of the at least one signal of interest.

13. The system of claim 1 , wherein the geolocation engine is operable to use amplitude ratio methods for geolocation using a set of fixed directional antennas pointing in different directions.

14. 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.

15. 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.

16. The system of claim 1 , wherein the actionable data is used to generate at least one knowledge-based decision tree.

17. 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.

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

19. 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; and

a tip and cue server;

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, wherein the learning engine is operable to learn the electromagnetic environment, and wherein the geolocation engine is operable to determine a location of the at least one signal of interest;

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;

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; and

wherein the tip and cue server is operable to use analyzed data from the at least one data analysis engine to create actionable data.

20. The system of claim 19 , wherein the geolocation engine is operable to determine the 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.

21. The system of claim 19 , wherein the geolocation engine is operable to utilize graphical geolocation techniques, and wherein the graphical geolocation techniques include an image comparison between a two-dimensional map or a three-dimensional map of possible outputs and the analyzed data.

22. The system of claim 19 , 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.

23. 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 learning engine, and a geolocation engine;

learning the electromagnetic environment using the learning engine;

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

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

optimizing resources to improve performance of at least one customer application and/or at least one customer device using a resource brokerage application; and

creating actionable data using a tip and cue server based on the analyzed data from the at least one data analysis engine.

24. The method of claim 23 , wherein the location of the at least one signal of interest is determined based on an angle of arrival, a time difference of arrival, a frequency difference of arrival, and power distribution ratio measurements.

25. The method of claim 23 , wherein the geolocation engine is operable to utilize graphical geolocation techniques, and wherein the graphical geolocation techniques include an image comparison between a two-dimensional map or a three-dimensional map of possible outputs and the analyzed data.

26. 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;

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;

optimizing resources to improve performance of at least one customer application and/or at least one customer device using a resource brokerage application; and

creating actionable data using a tip and cue server based on the analyzed data from the at least one data analysis engine.

27. The method of claim 26 , wherein the learning engine learns information from the detection engine, the classification engine, the identification engine, and/or the geolocation engine.

28. The method of claim 26 , wherein the geolocation engine determines the 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.

29. The method of claim 26 , further including a survey occupancy application determining occupancy in frequency bands and scheduling occupancy in at least one frequency band.

30. The method of claim 26 , wherein the geolocation engine is operable to utilize graphical geolocation techniques, and wherein the graphical geolocation techniques include an image comparison between a two-dimensional map or a three-dimensional map of possible outputs and the analyzed data.

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