Radiotelephone filtering apparatus

• US 6,687,506 B1
• Filed: 01/04/2000
• Issued: 02/03/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 06/02/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Raoul Girod
• Original Assignee: Raoul Girod
• Inventors: Girod, Raoul
• Primary Examiner(s): APPIAH, CHARLES NANA
• Application Number:
  US09/445,260
• Time in Patent Office: 1,491 Days
• Field of Search: 455/63.1, 455/431, 455/456, 455/409, 455/403, 455/528, 455/457, 455/422, 455/69, 455/440, 455/445, 455/517, 455/527, 455/1, 455/9, 455/421, 455/63.4, 455/63.3, 455/66.1, 455/456.4, 342/357.1, 342/450, 342/357.09, 342/357.14, 342/357.13, 342/457, 342/463
• US Class Current: 455/456.4
• CPC Class Codes: H04K 2203/16 for telephony
• CPC Class Codes: H04K 2203/32 including a particular configuration of antennas
• CPC Class Codes: H04K 3/42 characterized by the control of the jamming frequency or wavelength
• CPC Class Codes: H04K 3/43 characterized by the control of the jamming power, signal-to-noise ratio or geographic coverage area
• CPC Class Codes: H04K 3/45 characterized by including monitoring of the target or target signal, e.g. in reactive jammers or follower jammers for example by means of an alternation of jamming phases and monitoring phases, called "look-through mode"
• CPC Class Codes: H04K 3/84 related to preventing electromagnetic interference in petrol station, hospital, plane or cinema
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/04 based on user or terminal location or mobility data, e.g. moving direction, speed

Abstract

The apparatus makes it possible to neutralize radio telephones, in spaces to be protected, by jamming the call signals or by modifying the communication signals. The variant embodiments of the apparatus are adapted so as to restrict the volume to be filtered and so as to select the filtering communications.

Claims

1. An apparatus for at least partially neutralizing transmission and reception of a radiotelephone in a predetermined interior space, comprising:

a radiotelephony jammer including at least one transmitter capable of transmitting signals of the same frequencies used for communication between radiotelephones in said space and respective base stations and including means for modifying information transmitted between said radiotelephones and said base stations so as to inhibit use of the radiotelephones in said space; and

means for forming a radio link between said jammer and said base stations and responsive to active radiotelephones for forewarning a respective base station of jamming of communication between the active radiotelephone and the respective base station.

2. An apparatus for at least partially neutralizing transmission and reception of a radiotelephone in a predetermined interior space, comprising:

a radiotelephony jammer including at least one transmitter capable of transmitting signals of the same frequencies used for communication between radiotelephones in said space and respective base stations and including means for modifying information transmitted between said radiotelephones and said base stations so as to inhibit use of the radiotelephones in said space; and

means for detecting a locally active mobile radiotelephone and transmitting to a respective one of said base stations a code requesting filtering by the respective base station without transmitting to the locally active mobile radiotelephone.

3. The apparatus defined in claim 2 wherein said jammer includes means for transmitting a filtering code destined for said locally active mobile radiotelephone.

4. An apparatus, located in a predetermined space, working without location determining means incorporated or associated with each radio telephone, making it possible to partially or completely neutralize in that predetermined space transmission and reception capabilities of radio telephones, comprising at least one transmitter for transmitting signals of the same frequencies as the frequencies used for communications between said radio telephones and respective base stations with which they can communicate and for regulating power and radio coverage as a function of the volume of the space, said transmitter comprising means for modifying information contained in signals transmitted or received by said radio telephones or by the base stations.

5. The apparatus according to claim 4, further comprising a receiver for detection of the emissions of radio telephones present in the predetermined space for adapting the nature or the power of the signals.

6. The apparatus according to claim 5 which comprises, in addition, a receiver for radio links with the base stations.

7. The apparatus according to claim 5 which comprises a transmitter for radio links with the base stations.

8. The apparatus according to claim 5 which comprises one or more selective antennas for detected transmissions of the radio telephones present in the predetermined space.

9. The apparatus according to claim 8 wherein selective antennas are distributed in the predetermined space as a function of a geometry of the predetermined space.

10. The apparatus according to claim 8 wherein the selective antennas are directional in terms of angle.

11. The apparatus according to claim 8 wherein the selective antennae are of the radiating cable type.

12. The apparatus according to claim 8 wherein the transmitters and antennas are designed in multiples for frequency ranges of the respective radio telephone standards.

13. The apparatus according to claim 4 which transmits a continuous jamming signal destined for the radio telephones.

14. The apparatus according to claim 4 which comprises means for detecting transmissions of radio telephones in said space and sending said radio telephones an intermittent jamming signal before they ring or call.

15. The apparatus according to claim 14 which receive signals from the base stations and adjusts the power and the nature of the signals, with modification of information retransmitted and supplied to the radio telephones.

16. The apparatus according to claim 4 which transmits radio signals only on an identification channel.