Broadband access to mobile platforms using drone/UAV background

A Jalali - US Patent 9,859,972, 2018 - Google Patents
Abstract Systems and methods for providing broadband internet access to mobile platforms
such as vehicles, aircraft, and portable devices, using a network of one or more entities such …

Drone Safety Alert Monitoring System and Method

P Cahill - US Patent App. 14/824,011, 2016 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A wearable safety alarm system includes one or more proces sors to
receive identifying information and transmit the iden tifying information to an alarm response …

Concurrent airborne communication methods and systems

DCD Chang - US Patent 9,608,756, 2017 - Google Patents
Aircrafts or unmanned air vehicles flying near Earth are used as airborne communications
towers or relays. Using tech niques of ground based beam forming and wavefront mul …

Multi-channel communication optimization methods and systems

DCD Chang - US Patent 9,596,024, 2017 - Google Patents
BACKGROUND During emergencies, disasters, wartime, equipment fail ure or other
troubled situations, the regular communications structures Such as wireless cell phone …

Concurrent airborne communication methods and systems

DCD Chang - US Patent 8,767,615, 2014 - Google Patents
Aircrafts or unmanned air vehicles flying near Earth are used as airborne communications
towers or relays. Using techniques of ground based beam forming and wavefront …

Methods and apparatus for mitigating fading in a broadband access system using drone/UAV platforms

A Jalali - US Patent 9,479,964, 2016 - Google Patents
Systems and methods for mitigating the effects of atmo spheric conditions such as rain, fog,
cloud in a broadband access system using drone/UAVs. In one embodiment, ter minal and …

Apparatus and methods for compressing video content using adaptive projection selection

A Abbas - US Patent 10,313,686, 2019 - Google Patents
Apparatus and methods for encoding panoramic content, such as by a wide field of view and
large image size. In one implementation, a panoramic image may be mapped to a cube …

Communications architectures via UAV

DCD Chang - US Patent 9,621,254, 2017 - Google Patents
A communication system includes a transmitter segment at a source location inputting a
plurality of input signals to be transmitted. The input signals are transformed to wavefront …

Beam forming and pointing in a network of unmanned aerial vehicles (uavs) for broadband access

A Jalali, L Schiff - US Patent 9,712,228, 2017 - Google Patents
Abstract Systems and methods configured to form and point beams from one or more
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) toward a target coverage area on the ground. One …

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) beam pointing and data rate optimization for high throughput broadband access

A Jalali - US Patent 10,321,461, 2019 - Google Patents
Abstract Systems and methods configured to form and manage different types of beams
toward target ground terminals to “optimally” communicate with the terminals. In one set of …