Synthesized interoperable communications

• US 20070124144A1
• Filed: 11/03/2006
• Published: 05/31/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 05/27/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Richard Johnson
• Original Assignee: Richard Johnson
• Inventors: Johnson, Richard
• Granted Patent: US 8,711,732 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/246
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0654 using network fault recovery ring fault isolation or reconfiguration in loop networks without recovery actions by a network management system H04L12/437
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/40 for recovering from a failure of a protocol instance or entity, e.g. service redundancy protocols, protocol state redundancy or protocol service redirection management of faults, events, alarms or notifications in data switching networks H04L41/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 40/00 Systems for electrical power generation, transmission, distribution or end-user application management characterised by the use of communication or information technologies, or communication or information technology specific aspects supporting them

Abstract

A method for interoperable communications including at least the step of: a) at least one radio user'"'"'s being able to transmit at least one transmission on a first radio frequency to a computer having at least one sound card and at least two sound card channels on one or more sound cards, wherein each of the at least two sound card channels is programmed to receive and process transmissions from at least two separate radio frequencies. This configuration creates a new way of interfacing virtually any speaker with virtually any computer, and allows a paradigm shift of communications organization such that everyone can talk at once, literally, and still “hear” everyone else.

Claims

1. A method for interoperable communications, comprising:

a) providing a computer having at least two sound paths;

b) configuring said at least two sound paths with either a signal receiving interface and/or a signal generating interface, wherein said signal may be any sound, radio or electromagnetic encoded signal, and c) controlling two or more communications via organization by the computer.

2. The method according to claim 1 wherein said communications and organizing are conducted at least in part without TCP-IP.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein said user addresses the computer by speech.

4. The method according to claim 2, wherein any message or information posted for receipt may be alerted to the intended recipient by any audible, visual or other alert.

5. The method according to claim 2, wherein said user addresses the computer by speech and said computer has been previously programmed to recognize the user'"'"'s speech by speech recognition training software.

6. The method according to claim 2, wherein when a user accesses said at least one folder, at least a portion of the contents of the folder is transmitted by the computer to the radio of the user via a radio associated with the computer.

7. The method according to claim 2, wherein when a user accesses said at least one folder, at least a portion of the contents of the folder is transmitted by the computer via software defined radio to the user.

8. The method according to claim 2 wherein at least two users respectively use said at least two frequencies and either can transmit or receive messages from the other, via said computer, on the user'"'"'s respective frequency.

9. The method according to claim 2 wherein speech addressing of the user also identifies the user to the computer via a speech print of the user unique to the user.

10. The method according to claim 2, wherein at least one user is a user sending weather data to the National Weather Service and wherein said user transmits to said central computer either by voice or data transmission.

11. The method according to claim 2, wherein said user is a robotic user which transmits sensor or other data to said computer.

12. The method according to claim 2, wherein said user is a combination of a human user and a robotic or automated function.

13. The method according to claim 2, wherein the user employs a solar cell having the capacity to replenish 1.5 times the usage of the radio equipment over a 5-7 day time period.

14. The method according to claim 2, wherein said computer is powered by a power package containing a plurality of cells and, depending on the voltage requirement of the user, the device requiring to be powered is attached to the array at the negative lead of the first cell and at the positive lead of the furthest selected adjacent cell in the array to give the desired voltage.

15. The method according to claim 2, wherein said computer is powered by a power package containing 15 nickel metal hydride cells wherein the total voltage is approximately 19.5 volts at a 100% state of charge when the computer is attached to the array at the negative lead of the first cell and at the positive lead of the 15^th cell.

16. The method according to claim 13, wherein the power package can be reconfigured by attaching a substitute device requiring lower power to the array at the negative lead of the first cell and at the positive lead of the 10^th cell, to supply 13 volts instead of 19.5 volts.

17. The method according to claim 2, wherein said at least two sound paths are attributable to at least two sound cards.

19. The method according to claim 15 wherein when the computer folders are periodically replicated on more than one computer by separate radio transmission, each radio user may transmit to the same or a different computer any time data is sent or retrieved.

20. The method according to claim 15 where the user is any of human, robotic, or a combination of human and robotic or other automated equipment.

18. A method for interoperable radio communications including the steps of:

a) at least one radio user'"'"'s transmitting at least one transmission on a first radio frequency to a computer having at least one sound device and at least two sound paths on one or more sound devices, wherein each of said at least two sound paths is programmed to receive and/or to transmit from or on at least two separate radio frequencies;

b) said radio user'"'"'s simultaneously or subsequently posting, via the preprogrammed computer, said transmission as either a sound recording or a transcribed voice or data file obtained from the received transmission to a folder on the computer; and

c) at least a second radio user'"'"'s transmitting and/or receiving, on a second radio frequency via a sound path, to or from the same or another folder on the same or another computer, to enable said at least two users to transmit and/or receive messages from said computer via said at least two first and second radio frequencies.

21. A method of establishing the individual identity of a computer user to a computer, comprising a) programming a computer to recognize the speech of at least one user, followed by b) the addressing of data by the at least one user'"'"'s speech to and/or from said computer, wherein due to the addressing via speech recognition the computer can distinguish said at least one user from a different user.

22. A method of establishing the identity of a recipient of information, comprising a) programming a computer to recognize the speech of at least one user, followed by b) the addressing of data by the at least one user'"'"'s speech to and/or from said computer, wherein due to the addressing via speech recognition, the computer can designate the intended recipient of the information.

23. A device to improve interoperable communications, comprising hardware bearing at least two sound paths, said first sound path having associated therewith an interface allowing the reception and/or transmission of an electromagnetic or acoustic signal, and said second sound path having associated therewith an interface allowing the reception and/or transmission of an electromagnetic or acoustic signal.

24. The device according to claim 23 wherein said interfaces are constructed such that they need not use TCP-IP.