US 12,490,149 B2
Multi-mode scanning system using robust communications path
Alan Leon Kolackovsky, McLean, VA (US); John Robert Jackson, McLean, VA (US); Sam Atticus Wisotzki, McLean, VA (US); Fei Yang Soong, McLean, VA (US); Bryant Ngoc Huy Pham, McLean, VA (US); Joel William Davidson, McLean, VA (US); Travis Richard Ortiz, McLean, VA (US); and Nathan Benjamin Mars, McLean, VA (US)
Assigned to Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., McLean, VA (US)
Filed by Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., McLean, VA (US)
Filed on Apr. 4, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/712,609.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/171,003, filed on Apr. 5, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0322142 A1, Oct. 6, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 28/18 (2009.01); H04L 43/028 (2022.01)
CPC H04W 28/18 (2013.01) [H04L 43/028 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A sensor device comprising:
a plurality of sensors; and
a processor configured to:
control the plurality of sensors to obtain sensed data, according to a plurality of commands received from a remote device over a robust communications channel that includes a plurality of communications paths, wherein the plurality of commands includes a first command to sense in a first scanning mode that scans physical characteristics of an environment and a second command to sense in a second scanning mode that scans for a communications protocol;
select a communications path of the robust communications channel to use in response to a detection of a reduction in signal quality across one or more of the plurality of communications paths; and
return the sensed data and reporting data over the selected communications path robust communications channel to the remote device, wherein the reporting data includes processed raw data for the first command and processed raw data for the second command.