Granted Patent B1

US 12,255,694 · App. 18/901,882 · Granted Mar 18, 2025

Inventors: David William Kleinbeck (Lees Summit, MO); Ronald C. Dzierwa (Baltimore, MD)

Assignee: Digital Global Systems, Inc.

H04B17/309H04B17/20H04B17/23H04B17/26H04B17/27H04B17/29H04W24/08H04W24/10H04W64/00H04B17/24H04W24/04

Abstract

Claims (62)

1. A system for signal or interference detection in an electromagnetic environment, comprising:

at least one event manager;

at least one direction finding (DF) module;

at least one receiver operable to receive electromagnetic environment data including at least one signal;

at least one node including at least one signal processor operable to process the electromagnetic environment data; and

wherein the at least one receiver is in communication with the at least one node;

wherein the at least one signal processor is operable to process signal data using compressed data for deltas from at least one baseline;

wherein the deltas are differentials from the at least one baseline and minimize data sets or sample data required for comparisons and/or analytics;

wherein the at least one signal processor is operable to use a calibration vector, a first smoothing filter, and a second smoothing filter to de-bias raw signal data;

wherein the system is operable to use gradients and the second smoothing filter to create the calibration vector;

wherein the at least one node is operable to receive and analyze processed signal data from the at least one signal processor;

wherein the at least one node is operable to analyze the processed signal data by conducting at least two fast Fourier transform (FFT) analyses to create FFT data, aggregating the FFT data from the at least two FFT analyses to create the at least one baseline to be used in reporting, and comparing incoming FFTs to the at least one baseline to detect potential conflicts;

wherein the at least one node is operable to analyze the processed signal data based on at least one machine learning algorithm;

wherein the event manager is operable to decide a course of action based on data regarding the potential conflicts, user supplied knowledge, publicly available data, job manifests, and/or learned data from the at least one machine learning algorithm; and

wherein the at least one DF module is operable to locate a transmitter for the at least one signal using at least one angle-of-arrival (AoA) measurements of the at least one signal;

wherein the at least one node is operable to calculate a power distribution by frequency of the electromagnetic environment based on the FFT data including a first derivative of the FFT data and a second derivative of the FFT data; and

wherein an FFT engine is operable to track the at least one signal using edge processing and the first derivative of the FFT data and/or the second derivative of the FFT data.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one node includes an edge processor or is in network communication with the edge processor.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the edge processor is operable to calculate a power distribution by frequency of the electromagnetic environment.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one machine learning algorithm compares at least one attribute of at least one signal with at least one historical dataset.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one machine learning algorithm includes automatic signal variance determination to determine variance from different locations based on date and time.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the course of action is operable to be sent to a controller and includes in-phase and quadrature (I/Q) data and DF from the at least one DF module.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the second smoothing filter is performed only on frequencies outside a frequency range of the at least one signal.

8. A system for signal or interference detection in an electromagnetic environment, comprising:

at least one event manager;

at least one direction finding (DF) module;

at least one receiver operable to receive electromagnetic environment data including data for at least one signal; and

at least one node including at least one signal processor operable to process the electromagnetic environment data;

wherein the at least one receiver is in communication with the at least one node;

wherein the at least one signal processor is operable to process signal data using compressed data for deltas from at least one baseline;

wherein the deltas are differentials from the at least one baseline and minimize data sets or sample data required for comparisons and/or analytics;

wherein the at least one signal processor is operable to use a calibration vector to de-bias raw signal data;

wherein the system is operable to use gradients and a smoothing filter to create the calibration vector;

wherein the at least one node is operable to analyze the processed signal data by conducting at least two fast Fourier transform (FFT) analyses to create FFT data, aggregating the FFT data from the at least two FFT analyses in order to create the at least one baseline to be used in reporting, and comparing incoming FFTs to the at least one baseline in order to detect potential conflicts;

wherein the at least one node is operable to analyze the processed signal data based on an at least one machine learning algorithm;

wherein the event manager is operable to decide a course of action based on data regarding potential conflicts from the at least one node, user supplied knowledge, publicly available data, job manifests and/or learned data from the at least one machine learning algorithm;

wherein the at least one DF module is operable to locate a transmitter for the at least one signal based on Power-Difference-of-Arrival (PDoA) and Angle-of-Arrival (AoA) of the at least one signal;

wherein the at least one node is operable to calculate a power distribution by frequency of the electromagnetic environment based on the FFT data including a first derivative of the FFT data and a second derivative of the FFT data; and

wherein an FFT engine is operable to track the at least one signal using edge processing and the first derivative of the FFT data and/or the second derivative of the FFT data.

9. The system of claim 8 , wherein the at least one node includes an edge processor or is in network communication with the edge processor.

10. The system of claim 9 , wherein the edge processor is operable to analyze the processed signal data based on the FFT data.

11. The system of claim 8 , wherein the at least one DF module is operable to measure a direction from which the at least one signal is transmitted.

12. The system of claim 8 , further comprising a power distribution by frequency over time (PDFT) processor operable to automatically detect the at least one signal.

13. The system of claim 8 , wherein the at least one machine learning algorithm includes automatic signal variance determination to determine variance from different locations based on date and time from location set.

14. The system of claim 8 , wherein the smoothing filter is performed only on frequencies outside a frequency range of the at least one signal.

15. A system for signal or interference detection in an electromagnetic environment, comprising:

at least one direction finding (DF) module;

at least one receiver operable to receive electromagnetic environment data including at least one signal;

at least one node including at least one signal processor operable to process the electromagnetic environment data; and

wherein the at least one receiver is in communication with the at least one node;

wherein the at least one signal processor is operable to process signal data using compressed data for deltas from a baseline;

wherein the deltas are differentials from the baseline and minimize data sets or sample data required for comparisons and/or analytics;

wherein the at least one signal processor is operable to use a calibration vector to de-bias raw signal data;

wherein the system is operable to use gradients and a smoothing filter to create the calibration vector;

wherein the at least one node is operable to analyze the processed electromagnetic environment data by conducting at least two fast Fourier transform analyses to create FFT data, aggregating the FFT data to create the at least one baseline to be used in reporting, comparing incoming FFTs to the at least one baseline to detect potential conflicts;

wherein the at least one node is operable to analyze the processed signal data based on an at least one machine learning algorithm;

wherein the at least one DF module is operable to locate a transmitter for the at least one signal using at least one angle-of-arrival (AoA) measurement of the at least one signal;

wherein the at least one node is operable to calculate a power distribution by frequency of the electromagnetic environment based on the FFT data including a first derivative of the FFT data and a second derivative of the FFT data; and

wherein an FFT engine is operable to track the at least one signal using edge processing and the first derivative of the FFT data and/or the second derivative of the FFT data.

16. The system of claim 15 , further comprising a power distribution by frequency over time (PDFT) processor operable to automatically detect the at least one signal.

17. The system of claim 15 , further comprising an event manager operable to decide a course of action on the potential conflicts, user supplied knowledge, publicly available data, job manifests and/or learned data from the at least one machine learning algorithm.

18. The system of claim 15 , wherein the smoothing filter is performed only on frequencies outside a frequency range of the at least one signal.

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