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Autonomous portable communication network

  • US 6,856,811 B2
  • Filed: 02/01/2002
  • Issued: 02/15/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/01/2002
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A portable communication network comprising:

  • plural portable communications units, each providing;

    (a) a unit code, (b) a wave energy transceiver enabled for direct communication with any other one of the communications units over a limited range, (c) means for assigning a target code to each signal transmission, (d) means for detecting the target code in each signal reception, (e) means for processing a received signal when the target code of the received signal equals the unit code, and (f) means for retransmitting a received signal when the target code of the received signal differs from the unit code;

    wherein each one of the units is enabled for measuring a time delay between an interrogation and a reply with another of the units and for sending position information of said one of the units within a reply message, the one of the units enabled further for determining a relative position on the Earth of the one of the units by a triangulation method;

    whereby, through signal repeating, communication is enabled between any two of the communications units when their separation is greater then the limited range.

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