Granted Patent B1

US 12,408,097 · App. 18/086,807 · Granted Sep 2, 2025

Inventors: John L. Russell (Albuquerque, NM); David A. Wiegandt (Albuquerque, NM); Dahlon D. Chu (Albuquerque, NM); Kevin Robbins (Albuquerque, NM); Douglas G. Brown (Harvest, AL); Dominic A. Perea (Placitas, NM); Loren E. Riblett, Jr. (Edgewood, NM); Glen I. Magee (Albuquerque, NM); Wesley Hutchins (Albuquerque, NM); Tad Ashlock (Albuquerque, NM)

Assignee: National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC

H04W40/16H04L45/12H04W4/02H04W48/18H04W84/18

Abstract

Claims (34)

1. A communications system, comprising:

two or more communication nodes in communication with one another;

at least one information source providing information to at least one of the two or more communication nodes; and

at least one client network in communication with at least one node of the two or more nodes;

wherein the two or more communication nodes comprise two or more communication devices; and

wherein the two or more nodes comprise a processor configured to select one or more of the two or more communication devices to communicate information received from the at least one information source based on a determination of the reliability of communications between the two or more nodes;

a control module;

wherein one or more of the two or more communication nodes is configured to detect a jamming source; and

wherein the control module and/or two or more nodes determines a location of the jamming source based on the field of view of two or more nodes.

2. The communications system of claim 1 , wherein

each node comprises a plurality of segmented antennas; and wherein each individual segmented antenna is associated with the field of view for that individual node.

3. The communications system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more communication devices are two or more communication devices.

4. The communications system of claim 3 , wherein the two or more communications devices are different devices and are selected from a group consisting of radio frequency devices, acoustic communication devices and optical transmission devices.

5. The communications system of claim 1 , wherein the information source is a sensor.

6. The communications system of claim 1 , wherein the client network is selected from a group consisting of mobile communications devices, computer laptops, central processors, and computer tablets.

7. The communications system of claim 1 , wherein the processor receives additional information from a management interface system that (fill in with additional text to be added).

8. The communications system of claim 1 , wherein the processor receives other additional information form a node service system that provides other additional information selected from a group consisting of global positioning system location and time information, (other to be filed to mirror list).

9. The communications system of claim 1 , further comprising:

a switching layer that receives instructions from the process to select the one or more of the two or more communications devices.

10. A method for robust communications, comprising:

receiving information into one or more communication nodes;

providing global positioning geographic location and time information to the one or more communication nodes;

determining at the receiving node the most reliable communication from two or more communication paths at the one or more communication nodes a path passing through at least one additional node of the one or more communication nodes to a client network;

transmitting the information from the one or more nodes having received the information through the most reliable communication path; and

receiving the information at the client network;

wherein the information comprises jamming detection.

11. The method of claim 10 , further comprising:

determining a jammer location.

12. The method of claim 10 , wherein the information is generated by a sensor.

13. The method of claim 10 , wherein the information is transmitted from the one or more nodes having received the information by two or more communications devices selected from a group consisting of radio frequency radios, and optical communications devices.

14. The method of claim 10 , further comprising:

providing additional information to the one or more communication nodes, wherein the additional information is selected from a group consisting of node processor updates.

15. The method of claim 10 , wherein the client network is selected from a group consisting of a computer device, mobile phone and computer laptop.

16. The communications system of claim 2 , wherein an angular range of each individual field of view is, 360 degrees divided by a total number of individual segmented antennas.

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