US 12,107,620 B2
Situational awareness over a low bandwidth short burst data satellite system
Giles Peeters, Orleans (CA); Guy Desbiens, Ottawa (CA); Saad Mirza, Stittsville (CA); Abdulganiyu Yusufu, Ottawa (CA); Ian Johnstone, Ottawa (CA); Osasumwen E. Igbinedion, Gloucester (CA); Matt Saab, Ottawa (CA); Jun Zhou, Ottawa (CA); and Peter Pavlatos, Ottawa (CA)
Assigned to Nortac Defence Limited, Nepean (CA)
Filed by Nortac Defence Limited, Ottawa (CA)
Filed on Sep. 3, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/466,075.
Application 17/466,075 is a continuation of application No. 16/880,444, filed on May 21, 2020, granted, now 11,139,852.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/870,741, filed on Jul. 4, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0399760 A1, Dec. 23, 2021
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04W 28/06 (2009.01); H03M 7/30 (2006.01); H04B 1/66 (2006.01); H04B 7/185 (2006.01); H04W 4/02 (2018.01); H04W 84/06 (2009.01)
CPC H04B 1/66 (2013.01) [H03M 7/70 (2013.01); H04B 7/18517 (2013.01); H04W 4/02 (2013.01); H04W 28/06 (2013.01); H04W 84/06 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A message handler for receiving and transmitting a positional information over a low bandwidth network, the message handler comprising:
a receiver for receiving packets with the positional information from one or more assets over the network;
a memory for storing the positional information; and
a transmitter for sending one or more situational awareness packets to said one or more assets, said transmitter configured to:
convert the positional information into converted positional information; and
include the converted positional information in the situational awareness packets.