Personal wireless communication device wireless connectivity arrangement

• US 7,421,253 B2
• Filed: 03/26/2007
• Issued: 09/02/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 04/05/1993
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Ambit Corporation, Antennatech LLC
• Original Assignee: Ambit Corporation
• Inventors: Crowley, Robert J, Halgren, Donald N.
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Lee
• Application Number:
  US11/728,487
• Publication Number:
  US 20070173302A1
• Time in Patent Office: 526 Days
• Field of Search: 455/90.3, 455/106, 455/117, 455128-129, 455/347, 455/351, 455/405, 455/406, 455/575.1, 455/575.5, 455/575.7, 343702-703, 343/720, 343/841
• US Class Current: 455/90.3
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0012 Seats or parts thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/241 used in mobile communications, e.g. GSM H01Q1/247, H01Q1/248 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/243 with built-in antennas
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/3833 Hand-held transceivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/3877 Arrangements for enabling portable transceivers to be used in a fixed position, e.g. cradles or boosters
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/04 Supports for telephone transmitters or receivers

Abstract

The present invention comprises a docking system for connecting a portable communication device to a further signal transmission line. The docking system may be arranged within a workstation such as a desk or a tray. The system may also envelope a room in a building or be located in a vehicle, to control and restrict the radiative emission from the communication device and to direct such radiation to a further remote antenna and or signal distribution system connected to the transmission line.

Claims

1. A system for permitting wireless communication for a wide variety of different wireless personal communication devices, each of said devices having a radiative antenna, all of said variety of different wireless devices being located within an rf restricted environment, and between other communication devices located outside of said rf restricted environment, said system comprising:

a plurality of first antennae arranged within said rf restricted environment arranged to communicate wirelessly with said radiative antennae of said variety of different wireless personal communication devices within said rf restricted environment;

at least one second antenna arranged outside of said rf restricted environment to wirelessly communicate with said other communication devices located outside of said rf restricted environment;

a control computer arranged in a communications link between said plurality of first antennae within said rf restricted environment and said at least one second antenna arranged outside of said rf restricted environment, said control computer arranged to monitor and control use of said variety of different wireless personal communication devices within said rf restricted environment and to permit multiple simultaneous use of said wide variety of wireless personal communication devices within said rf restricted environment.

2. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein said control computer operates to control the amount of time said wireless personal communication devices may be utilized to communicate from within said rf restricted environment, with said other communication devices outside of said rf restricted environment.

3. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein said control computer operates to monitor costs of utilizing said different wireless personal communication devices within said rf restricted environment.

4. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein said rf restricted environment comprises a vehicle.

5. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein said rf restricted environment comprises an airplane.

6. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein said rf restricted environment comprises an automobile.

7. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein said rf restricted environment comprises a building.

8. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein said at least one outside antenna communicates wirelessly with a satellite.

9. A method of wirelessly utilizing a wide variety of different radiatively communicative wireless personal communication devices, each device having a radiative antenna being utilized within an rf restricted environment, communication with a communication device outside of said rf restricted environment, comprising:

arranging a plurality of interconnected first antennae within said rf restricted environment;

arranging at least one second antenna outside of said rf restricted environment;

placing a computer control arrangement in a communications link transmission line between said plurality of first antennae within said rf restricted environment and said at least one second antenna arranged outside of said rf restricted environment; and

monitoring and controlling communicated electromagnetic signals of said variety of different radiatively communicative wireless personal communication devices utilized within said rf restricted environment by said control computer arrangement.

10. The method as recited in claim 9, including:

limiting the amount time any of said variety of different radiatively communicative wireless personal communication devices may be utilized to communicate wirelessly from within said rf restricted environment.

11. The method as recited in claim 9, including:

accounting for the wireless communicative use between any wireless personal communication device located within said rf restricted environment and a communication device located outside of said rf restricted environment.

12. The method as recited in claim 9, including:

modulating said communicated electromagnetic signals transmitted with respect to said wireless personal communication devices within said rf restricted environment, by said computer control arrangement.

13. The method as recited in claim 9, wherein one of said variety of different personal communication devices utilized within said rf restricted environment comprises a personal computer.

14. The method as recited in claim 9, wherein one of said variety of different personal communication devices utilized within said rf restricted environment comprises a cellular telephone.

15. The method as recited in claim 9, wherein said rf restricted environment comprises an aircraft.

16. The method as recited in claim 9, wherein said rf restricted environment comprises an automobile.

17. The method as recited in claim 9, wherein said rf restricted environment comprises a building.

18. A system for permitting wireless communication for a wide variety of different wireless personal communication devices, each of said devices having a radiative antenna, all of said variety of different wireless devices being located within an rf restricted environment, and between other communication devices located outside of said rf restricted environment, said system comprising:

at least one first antennae arranged within said rf restricted environment arranged to communicate wirelessly with said radiative antennae of said wide variety of different wireless personal communication devices located within said rf restricted environment;

at least one second antenna arranged to radiatively communicate outside of said rf restricted environment to wirelessly communicate with said other communication devices located outside of said rf restricted environment;

a control computer arrangement arranged in a communication transmissions link between said at least one first antennae within said rf restricted environment and said at least one second antenna arranged outside of said rf restricted environment, said control computer arrangement arranged to monitor and control use of said variety of different wireless personal communication devices within said rf restricted environment.

19. The system as recited in claim 18, wherein said control computer monitors the time of use of a communication device within the rf restricted environment.