US 11,916,651 B1
Managing satellite communications in flexible form factors
Hendrik J. Volkerink, Palo Alto, CA (US); and Ajay Khoche, West San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by TRACKONOMY SYSTEMS, INC., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Oct. 4, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/449,862.
Application 17/449,862 is a continuation in part of application No. 16/923,060, filed on Jul. 7, 2020, granted, now 11,580,826.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/087,226, filed on Oct. 4, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/087,223, filed on Oct. 4, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/871,685, filed on Jul. 8, 2019.
Int. Cl. G08B 5/36 (2006.01); H04B 7/185 (2006.01); G16Y 40/60 (2020.01)
CPC H04B 7/18519 (2013.01) [H04B 7/18513 (2013.01); G16Y 40/60 (2020.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for distributing Ephemeris data of a satellite navigation system to at least one tape node of a wireless sensing system, comprising:
receiving, by a gateway node of the wireless sensing system, a wireless satellite signal from at least one navigation satellite;
decoding, by the gateway node, the Ephemeris data from the wireless satellite signal; and
transmitting, by the gateway node, the Ephemeris data to the at least one tape node via a low-powered wireless communication interface.