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TITLE: MASSIVE ARRAY CELLULAR SYSTEM
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a massive array
cellular system and devices used in the system capable of
simultaneously sending and receiving electromagnetic
signals of multiple frequency.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Present telephone and cellular systems of
communication available for the general public typically
require the purchase of a telephone or cellular phone and a
fee for connecting to the telephone service. The physical
lines and cellular systems belong to the telephone company
and the user pays a fee for access to the service for
transmission and reception of signals. The telephone
companies transmit the signals by various means (microwave,
conductive or fibre lines), charging the user a fee. At
the present time cellular telephone systems utilize
multiple cells which communicate with the cellular phone,
the cellular phone communicating with the closest cell
providing the strongest signal. These cells are then
connected to the physical transmission medium of the
telephone company.
SUN~IARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention provides for a massive
array cellular system device comprising an electromagnetic
transceiver capable of simultaneously sending and receiving
electromagnetic signals of multiple frequency, the
transceivers also being capable of communicating with
another such device to relay electromagnetic signals of
multiple frequency from one transceiver to another. The
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present invention also provides for a massive array
cellular system comprising a plurality of the devices and
for the protocol for the operation of the devices.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
Preferred embodiments of the invention are shown in
the drawings, wherein:
Figure 1 illustrates the initialization of the
M.A.C.S. device;
Figure 2 illustrates the connection request and
relay for the M.A.C.S. device;
Figure 3 illustrates the operation of a mobile
M.A.C.S. device;
Figure 4 illustrates the mobile M.A.C.S. device
connecting to stationery M.A.C.S. devices for relaying to
existing telephone service company services;
Figure 5 illustrates mobile M.A.C.S. devices
communicating with stationery M.A.C.S. devices for the
purpose of connecting to other M.A.C.S. devices; and
Figure 6 illustrates a typical topology of
M.A.C.S. devices with out of range repeaters.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
The Massive Array Cellular System (henceforth
referred as M.A.C.S.) devices, protocols, and topologies
comprise a cost effective alternative to current telephone
and telecommunications company provided communication
services. Typically this system and devices allow both
private households or companies having these M.A.C.S.
devices to interlink for the purpose of relaying signals
from other Massive Array Cellular System (M.A.C.S.)
devices for the purpose of multimedia communications (i.e.,
voice and video, television, voice, data or any other form
of digital or analog signals).
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The M.A.C.S. devices consist of electromagnetic
transceivers capable of simultaneously sending and
receiving electromagnetic signals of multiple frequencies.
The M.A.C.S. devices are connected to various input and
output devices, such as one or more multimedia devices
(e. g. microphones, speakers, video cameras, computers,
etc.). The M.A.C.S. devices and protocols utilize many
electromagnetic channels of relative small wattage.
Because the specific electromagnetic wavelengths and
maximum signal strengths will likely be government
regulated, their specifications are not being set herein.
To compensate for limited frequency channels, the M.A.C.S.
devices may utilize digital compression technology. For
some multimedia communications, the M.A.C.S. devices may
also incorporate digital signal processing. Each of the
individual channels may have varying strengths to optimize
on long distance hops to other M.A.C.S. devices, thus
minimizing the number of routing connections required to
establish a final destination M.A.C.S. device link.
Each M.A.C.S. device is able to simultaneously
process multiple channels. Most of these channels are used
to relay the signals of other M.A.C.S. devices to their
destination M.A.C.S. device. Each household/company having
a M.A.C.S. device is able to originate a request to connect
to a far distant M.A.C.S. device via other relaying
M.A.C.S. devices as will be described further below.
The primary method of navigation of the signals
is based on geo-physical locating coordinates of the
devices (i.e. longitude and latitude or UTM or other such
geo-physical coordinate system). An M.A.C.S. device is
addressed by a geo-physical co-ordinate location and device
identity, such that the combination is unique. This
address will henceforth be referred as LOC-Name. For
validation and security the M.A.C.S. device LOC-Name may
also have a password unique to the LOC-Name.
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The M.A.C.S. protocols are used for the
establishment of original two way connections to remote
household/company M.A.C.S. devices, as well as to
distribute signals to other M.A.C.S. devices. Each user of
such M.A.C.S. device would be able to send and receive
calls or multimedia communication relatively free of
communication service charges.
A sub-set function of the M.A.C.S. devices and
M.A.C.S. protocols is for the purpose of providing mobile
connections to household/company M.A.C.S. devices, co-
operating to connect to an existing communication service
company.
Another sub-set function of the M.A.C.S. devices
and protocols is for the inter-communication system for
traffic vehicles (land, air or water vehicles) for the
purpose of accident prevention, and high speed navigation.
The M.A.C.S. devices and protocols have the
capacity of providing new videophone or other multimedia
services.
The M.A.C.S. protocols are used to establish
links between M.A.C.S. devices that may be separated and
connected by other M.A.C.S. devices.
After establishment of the initial originating
M.A.C.S. device to destination M.A.C.S. device link,
subsequent connections of M.A.C.S. devices may be navigated
by previous successful navigational links or by provided
routing instructions sent by the originating M.A.C.S.
device. The M.A.C.S. protocols also allow for navigation
alternatives in case an intermediate M.A.C.S. device link
fails or for lack of available channels on an intermediate
M.A.C.S. device.
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The M.A.C.S. protocols cover the basic methods
for M.A.C.S. device initialization routines, relaying or
repeating of communications between M.A.C.S. devices,
mobile M.A.C.S. devices communication links, and M.A.C.S.
devices addressing. Various figures are attached and
explained below to illustrate the M.A.C.S. devices,
protocols, and topologies and their operation.
M.A.C.S. DEVICE INITIALIZATION:
As illustrated in Figure 1, on power up or first
time activation the M.A.C.S. device 10 requires a LOC-Name.
This Loc-Name may be a user entered set of geo-physical
co-ordinates (e. g.. longitude, latitude or UTM), and a user
or M.A.C.S. devices identity (e. g.. company name, personal
name, Personal Identity Number, S.I.N., etc.). The user of
the M.A.C.S. device 10 may enter an access password for
encryption, access authorization, and security.
The M.A.C.S. devices 10 having the above
manually entered or device calculated geo-location first
broadcasts a Request for Neighbour-Hood-Nodes 12. The
nearest M.A.C.S. devices 14 will respond with their Loc-
Names. The requesting M.A.C.S. device 10 then stores these
nearest and most immediate neighbouring M.A.C.S. devices'
information for future routing strategies for the purpose
of relaying or repeating communications to and from other
M.A.C.S. devices 14.
Since many M.A.C.S. devices may be in one
building, the M.A.C.S. devices 10 begin first by using a
signal transmission strength of a few meters radius in its
broadcast for Requests for Neighbour-Hood-Nodes 12, waits
for responses and slowly increments transmission wattage or
signal strength until a sufficient number of surrounding
M.A.C.S. devices 14 respond, achieving maximum number of
clear channels as well as directionally diverse
neighbouring M.A.C.S. devices 14.
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If a M.A.C.S. device LOC-Name geo-position does
not fit within the signal radius of other M.A.C.S. devices
LOC-Name geo-positions then the other M.A.C.S. devices will
ignore all communications to the illicit device. This
should prevent the unauthorized reception of signals.
M.A.C.S. DEVICE REQUEST FOR CONNECTION, AND M.A.C.S. DEVICE
COMMUNICATION RELAY/REPEAT:
As illustrated in Figure 2, having the LOC-Name
of the M.A.C.S. device 16 to connect to, a request for
connection is transmitted to the neighbouring M.A.C.S.
devices 14 (determined by the above initialization routine)
by sending the desired LOC-Name and it's own originating
LOC-Name 18. The subsequent M.A.C.S. device 14 will also
pass the relaying station LOC-Name 20, since it is not the
originator. As an example, if the desired Loc-Name geo-
position is north-west of the originating request, the
originating M.A.C.S. device 10 would request the M.A.C.S.
device 14 closest to the north-west destination to be the
relaying M.A.C.S. device of its transmission. This
relaying M.A.C.S. device would reply that it has a channel
to relay its communication. The originating M.A.C.S.
device 10 confirms receipt of message, and stores the first
level relay routing destination M.A.C.S. device 14 LOC-
Name. The relaying M.A.C.S. device 14, if not the final
destination M.A.C.S. device 16, in turn would relay the
original request 22 with the desired destination M.A.C.S.
device LOC-Name, the origin M.A.C.S. device LOC-Name, and
the relaying M.A.C.S. device LOC-Name, to its neighbourhood
M.A.C.S. devices 24. This process would repeat and
continue until the final destination M.A.C.S. device is
contacted. Once the final destination M.A.C.S. device
responds then the relay of communication 26 begins both
ways from-to originating (origin) M.A.C.S. device and
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destination M.A.C.S. device via the interlinking and
relaying M.A.C.S. devices.
In cases where a M.A.C.S. devices) connection
fails, a back-tracking and re-routing via the Request for
Connection as described above is done until a final
destination M.A.C.S. device connection is again achieved.
For the purpose of speed, the successful route may be
memorized by the origin M.A.C.S. device, for subsequent re-
connections to the destination M.A.C.S. device. The
relaying M.A.C.S. device may transmit back to the origin
M.A.C.S. device through the paths taken by the relaying
M.A.C.S. devices for the origin M.A.C.S.'s future use.
Some channels may be reserved for the sole
purpose of relaying one-way television or multimedia
services to other M.A.C.S. devices in order to eliminate
the need of cable service companies, television
broadcasting, and satellite TV/multimedia transmission
services.
MOBILE M.A.C.S. DEVICES COMMUNICATION TO STATIONARY
M.A.C.S. DEVICES:
As illustrated in Figure 3, in this situation
the originating first level connection 28 to a stationary
M.A.C.S. device 10 becomes the origin M.A.C.S. device's 30
geo-location component of its LOC-Name for the returning
communication from the desired destination M.A.C.S. device
16 or relaying M.A.C.S. device 14. The first stationary
M.A.C.S. device 10 takes on the function of representing
the mobile M.A.C.S. device's 30 LOC-Name. When the mobile
M.A.C.S. device 30 begins to physically pass beyond the
signal area of the first level connection stationary
M.A.C.S. device 10 as shown by arrow 36, the mobile
M.A.C.S. device 30 requests another stationary M.A.C.S.
device within its signal area to become the origin M.A.C.S.
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device LOC-Name and its first level connection as
represented by crooked arrow 38 to insure a reliable
communication channel. The previous stationary M.A.C.S.
device 10 is informed of its desire to use another
stationary M.A.C.S. devices to represent it as the origin
M.A.C.S. device Loc-Name. The previous stationary
M.A.C.S. device 10 in turn informs the next level relaying
M.A.C.S. device to communicate to the new origin M.A.C.S.
device's LOC-Name. If any of the relaying M.A.C.S. devices
14 becomes out of service, out of signal range, or out of
free relaying channels then a re-routing backwards and
forward to the new M.A.C.S. device is performed. Password
verification can be relayed to the users stationary
M.A.C.S. device to authorize the mobile M.A.C.S. device's
reception of signals that would normally be sent to the
users stationary M.A.C.S. device.
MOBILE M.A.C.S. DEVICE CONNECTION TO STATIONARY M.A.C.S.
DEVICES FOR RELAYING TO EXISTING TELEPHONE SERVICES:
As illustrated in Figure 4, a secondary function
of the M.A.C.S. devices 10 would be to relay a mobile
M.A.C.S. device 30 communication via stationary M.A.C.S.
devices 10 via a traditional telephone service company to a
location 34 having only a traditional telephone line 32 by
allowing the mobile M.A.C.S. device 10 to send its
telephone service charge account number to the telephone
company system for validation and have all such telephone
charges charged to the user of the mobile M.A.C.S. device's
30 telephone number. The stationary M.A.C.S. device 10
would feed the mobile M.A.C.S. device's 30 communication
immediately into the existing Telephone Company services by
hard wire 32 or other traditional telephone systems.
A mobile M.A.C.S. device may also request a
relay from one Mobile M.A.C.S. device to another Mobile
M.A.C.S. device which in turn will relay to another Mobile
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M.A.C.S. device using the geo-physical co-ordinates
obtained by Geo-positioning satellites to determine their
mobile geo-physical location for the purpose of navigating
towards the direction of the destination LOC-Name. This
allows the navigation of the relays to incorporate any
mixture of Stationary and Mobile M.A.C.S. devices to
achieve connection to the destination LOC-Name.
MOBILE M.A.C.S. DEVICES COMMUNICATION FOR INTER-VEHICLE
NAVIGATIONAL AND SAFETY AND INTER-VEHICLE USER
COMMUNICATIONS:
The mobile M.A.C.S. devices for such a function
must have a means to re-calculate its geo-position or LOC-
Name. With a geo-positioning resolution of better than few
meters, vehicles can inter-communicate their speed,
direction, vehicle conditions, braking conditions,
passenger communication etc. to other signal area mobile
M.A.C.S. devices. In cases where a vehicle, having a
mobile M.A.C.S. device is in front of another mobile
M.A.C.S. device equipped vehicle, that may suddenly brake,
then the following vehicle can take appropriate measures to
prevent collision. In cases of intersection crossing by
such equipped M.A.C.S. device vehicles, the inter-
communications of crossing vehicles can warn of an
impending collision.
The proposed M.A.C.S. devices and system of the
present invention provides numerous benefits. The system
eliminates the user need for telephone companies,
television broadcasters, as well as television cable
companies.
The M.A.C.S. protocols allow these M.A.C.S.
devices to communicate with each other, navigate signals
through the devices and relay various forms of
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communication from M.A.C.S. device to M.A.C.S. device as
well as link to non M.A.C.S. devices.
The mobile and stationary M.A.C.S. devices,
protocols and topologies will freely provide a massive
multimedia throughput, personal multimedia communication,
mobile cellular service, as well as vehicular (i.e.,
automotive) safety control.
As illustrated in part in Figure 6, the M.A.C.S.
devices 10 and protocols allow the development of a network
of millions of M.A.C.S. devices 10 distributed across
various countries. The M.A.C.S. devices 10 would originate
and relay among themselves data, videophone, television,
and other multimedia broadcasts. The network of M.A.C.S.
devices 10 include high power channels 44 as well as low
power channels 42 and may also include the use of relay
nodes 46.
The M.A.C.S. devices, protocol and topology
based network would have strategic communications defence
advantages. A man made or natural destruction of a city
(or cluster of M.A.C.S. devices) would not permanently
interrupt communications to other surrounding and remaining
M.A.C.S. devices. The communications between M.A.C.S.
devices would be relayed around the destroyed city or the
bordering M.A.C.S. devices by increasing the transmission
reception radius to span the deactivated M.A.C.S. devices,
or relay signals around the deactivated area via other
M.A.C.S. devices.
These M.A.C.S. devices network would have a
combined multimedia throughput far surpassing any and all
present communication company services.
Although various preferred embodiments of the
present invention have been described herein in detail, it
will be appreciated by those skilled in the art, that
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variations may be made thereto without departing from the
spirit of the invention or the scope of the appended
claims.
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