Radiative focal area antenna transmission coupling arrangement

• US 7,904,124 B2
• Filed: 02/13/2009
• Issued: 03/08/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 04/05/1993
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Antennatech LLC
• Original Assignee: Ambit Corporation
• Inventors: Crowley, Robert J., Halgren, Donald N.
• Primary Examiner(s): SHARMA, SUJATHA R
• Application Number:
  US12/378,452
• Publication Number:
  US 20100178880A1
• Time in Patent Office: 753 Days
• Field of Search: 455/90.3, 455/575.1, 455/575.5, 455/575.7, 455/106, 455/405, 455/406, 455/569.1, 455/569.2, 455/117, 455/128, 455/129, 455/347, 455/351, 455/7, 455/9, 343/702, 343/703, 343/720, 343/841
• US Class Current: 455/575.1
• 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, the different wireless personal communication devices each having a radiative antenna, wherein the system is arranged to permit wireless, controlled communication between the wide variety of personal communication devices and other communication devices, the system comprising:

at least one first antennae arranged for use within an rf restricted environment, the at least one first antennae arranged to communicate wirelessly with the radiative antennae of the variety of different wireless personal communication devices being communicatively utilized within the rf restricted environment;

at least one signal transmission link arranged to communicate outside of the rf restricted environment with other communication devices located outside of the rf restricted environment; and

a monitoring and control computer arranged in communication with the at least one first antennae within the rf restricted environment and the at least one signal transmission link arranged to communicate outside of the rf restricted environment, the monitoring and control computer configured to permit the monitoring and the controlled use of the variety of different wireless personal communication devices within the rf restricted environment, the different wireless personal communication devices being utilized to communicate with the other communication devices located outside of the rf restricted environment, and to permit multiple simultaneous controlled, monitored use of the wide variety of wireless personal communication devices within the rf restricted environment and other the communication devices located outside of the rf restricted environment.

2. The system as recited in claim 1, where the monitoring and control computer is arranged to control the amount of time the wide variety of wireless personal communication devices may be utilized to communicate from within the rf restricted environment, with the other communication devices located outside of the rf restricted environment.

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

4. The system as recited in claim 1, where the rf restricted environment is selected from a group consisting of:

a vehicle, an aircraft and a building.

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

6. The system as recited in claim 1, where the rf restricted environment is at least partially if shielded.

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

8. The system as recited in claim 1, where the at least one outside transmission link comprises an antenna which is arranged to communicate wirelessly with other communication devices outside of the rf restricted environment.

9. A method of permitting the utilization of any of a wide variety of different radiatively communicative wireless personal communication devices within at least a partially shielded rf restricted environment, wirelessly, with a communication device outside of the rf restricted environment, comprising:

arranging an rf shielding within at least part of the rf restricted environment;

arranging at least one interconnected first antennae within an rf restricted environment;

arranging at least one signal transmission line outside of the rf restricted environment;

placing a monitor and computer control arrangement in a communications link transmission line between the at least one first antennae within the rf restricted environment and the at least one signal transmission line arranged to communicate outside of the rf restricted environment; and

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

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

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

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

amplifying the communicated electromagnetic signals transmitted with respect to the wireless personal communication devices utilized within the rf restricted environment, by the monitor and control computer.

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

modulating the communicated electromagnetic signals transmitted and received by the wireless personal communication devices, by the monitor and control computer controlling rf signals in the rf restricted environment.

14. The method as recited in claim 9, where at least one of the variety of different personal communication devices utilized within the rf restricted environment is selected from the group consisting of:

a personal computer and a cellular telephone.

15. The method as recited in claim 9, where at least one of the variety of different personal communication devices utilized within the rf restricted environment comprises a cellular telephone.

16. The method as recited in claim 9, where the rf restricted environment is selected from the group consisting of:

an aircraft, a building and a vehicle.

17. The method as recited in claim 9, where the signal transmission line communicating with the outside of the rf restricted environment comprises a radiative antenna.

18. A system for permitting simultaneous wireless communication for a wide variety of different wireless personal communication devices from within an rf restricted environment, the different wireless personal communication devices each having a radiative antenna, the variety of different wireless personal communication devices being utilized being located for use within the rf restricted environment, for use in wireless communication with other communication devices located outside of the rf restricted environment, the system comprising:

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

at least one signal transmission line arranged to communicate with the outside of the rf restricted environment to communicate with other communication devices located outside of the rf restricted environment;

a monitor and control computer arrangement arranged in a communication transmissions link between the at least one first antennae within the rf restricted environment and the at least one signal transmission line arranged to communicate with the outside of the rf restricted environment, the monitor and control computer arrangement being arranged to simultaneously monitor, modulate and control use of the variety of different wireless personal communication devices utilized wirelessly within the rf restricted environment.

19. The system as recited in claim 18, wherein the rf restricted environment is at least partially shielded.