Elta Systems Ltd.

Saverone 2014 Ltd.

Yaakov Shoshan

Gil Koifman

Adi Schwartz

Itay Sherman

Yossef Cohen

Amiram Gur Gerasi

Jacob Tzlil

Udi Weinsberg

Benjamin Giloh

Eliyahu Gur

Michael Elmakias

Yigal Bitran

Amir Lavi

Oded Nahamoni

A vehicle safety system operating on a driver's cellphone and comprising selective blocking apparatus, controlled by a processor, for blocking specified functionalities of the cellphone only when the cellphone is in a moving vehicle; and communication functionality operative to receive from a remote server and feed to said processor, updates which determine which specified functionalities to block.

System and methods to facilitate safe driving

A system for localizing a transmitting wireless device within a known volume, the system including antennae deployed in respective locations at least some within the known volume, each of the antennae operative to receive and output a signal from the transmitting device; analog-to-digital converter/s; and a processor receiving digital sampled received signals and computing real time output parameter/s as function of: sampled received signals S, received from the transmitting wireless device at antenna i; and of sampled signals, received from the transmitting wireless device at antenna j and sampled, simultaneously with reception at antenna I and sampling of sampled received signals S, function being independent of power level at which transmitting device is transmitting, and to estimate transmitting wireless device's location within volume by comparing the parameter/s to reference output parameters respectively having known correspondence to known possible locations/s within volume, for at least two of the antennae.

System and methods of locating wireless devices in a volume

A cellular system comprising at least one moving non-stationary base station for enabling cellular communication between at least two mobile stations in a geographic area that lacks adequate cellular coverage by at least one stationary base station.

Moving cellular communication system

In a mobile communication system including a network having at least one base station operative to receive information in resource allocation terminology understandable to the base station and to allocate downlink bandwidth accordingly, at least one relay operative to convey to the base station information regarding needs of mobile communicators associated with the relay, using the resource allocation terminology understandable to the base station, and when receiving uplink bandwidth, from the base station, which generates an uplink between itself and the base station, to distribute the uplink bandwidth between the mobile communicators associated with the relay.

Various traffic management methods for dynamic multi-hop backhauling cellular network and systems useful in conjunction therewith

A method operative in conjunction with a cellular communication network having a core element and comprising providing moving relays including base and mobile station functionality and a relay resource manager, all co-located, including providing an emergency moving relay from among the moving relays further including a simulated stationary network that includes a simulated IP connectivity gateway communicating with a simulated mobility management entity. The simulated stationary network simulates a stationary network's operation; the emergency moving relay being a root of a sub tree that includes moving relays and mobile stations, and is configured to utilize its mobile and base station functionalities and relay resource manager for operating in:

Moving cellular communication system operative in an emergency mode

An improved mobile/cellular/wireless communication method e.g. for use-cases in which portions ('important signal' or 'needed signal') of a signal (&#x201c;original signal&#x201d;) are of particular interest in a given situation but not adequately received in that situation, the method comprising generating an auxiliary signal operative e.g. to bridge between imperfect ability/ies of the transmitters in the situation, and specific needs of the receivers in the situation, and/or to improve reception of the important signal and/or important signal information; and transmitting at least the auxiliary signal to the receiving end such that a representation of characteristics of the important signal, comprising the important signal itself and/or important signal information characterizing the important signal, is replaced enhanced or augmented by the auxiliary signal, at the receiving end.

System for generating, transmitting and receiving auxiliary signals and methods useful in conjunction therewith

A method for repetition of uplink transmissions comprises: a repeater apparatus, aka uplink repeater, has a controller, a downlink receiver and an uplink transmitter and receiver. Use the downlink receiver to receive a downlink signal from a base station whose cell the uplink repeater is serving. For downlink frame(s) thus received: the controller demodulates at least a portion of the downlink frame and extracts MAP_D data describing allocation of an uplink transmission in upcoming uplink frame(s) to be transmitted after the downlink frame; controller determines a subset of UL transmission allocations to be repeated, to define a subset of mobile stations in the cell, whose uplink transmissions are to be repeated; the uplink receiver receives the UL transmissions to be repeated from each mobile station, and repeats the UL transmissions to be repeated by commanding the UL transmitter to send the content.

Partial uplink repeater system, method and computer program product

System for ex post facto upgrading of at least one Legacy personal communication device including a legacy modem and lacking at least one desired wireless communication feature, the system comprising an up-graded communication device including an auxiliary modem physically connected via an ex post facto physical connection to a Legacy personal communication device having at least one legacy wireless output channel which has been neutralized or disabled.

Add-on modem for wireless devices and methods useful in conjunction therewith

System and Methods to facilitate safe driving

A method for converting a conventional cellular network e.g. having nodes equipped with conventional modems operating in accordance with a cellular communication protocol e.g. LTE and storing first orthogonal sequences, into a private cellular network, including coupling an (e.g. external) device to only nodes sought for the private cellular network, the device storing second orthogonal sequences not hard-coded in the modems, the device storing a one-to-one correspondence enabling translation of each second orthogonal sequence, to one of the first sequences. at least when in a private network supporting mode, a device associated with a transmitting node sought for the private network, uses a processor to determine which first orthogonal sequence is being used, translate that sequence using the one-to-one correspondence into a second orthogonal sequence, and use the translated sequence to transmit a synchronization signal.

System, method and computer program product for establishing a private cellular network

For use with a cellular communication network having a base station transmitting downlink signals received by mobile device/s: a downlink signal reception enhancement system including partial repeater apparatus enhancing quality of reception of at least a portion of downlink signal/s by mobile device/s, the partial repeater apparatus including a downlink receiver receiving at least a portion of downlink signal/s arriving from the base station; a controller including a critical region selector, selecting only a portion of at least one individual downlink signal; and a partial transmitter generating signal/s by regenerating, according to characteristic/s of at least one of a downlink signal and the mobile device, at least the portion selected by the critical region selector, and to transmit a signal including at least the regenerated portion plus less than all of the individual downlink signal.

Partial downlink repeater apparatus and methods useful in conjunction therewith

A system for multicarrier cellular communication in a cellular network including a multiplicity of nodes, the system comprising, at an individual moving relay from among the multiplicity of nodes, an rBS having downlink communication, according to a protocol, with UEs served thereby; and a co-located rRM (relay Resource Manager) having a controller; wherein the controller is operative to induce the rBS to generate a selective minimally interfered region in a domain and/or to coordinate between schedulers in the relay to ensure that each user has its own time and/or frequency such that channels do not overlap because time and/or frequency are shifted to prevent the overlap.

Apparatus and methods for moving relay interference mitigation in mobile e.g. cellular communication networks

A system for localizing a transmitting wireless device within a known volume, the system comprising: antennae deployed in respective locations at least some within the known volume, each of the antennae operative to receive and output a signal from the transmitting device; analog-to-digital converter/s; and a processor receiving digital sampled received signals and computing real time output parameter/s as function of: sampled received signals S, received from the transmitting wireless device at antenna i; and of sampled signals, received from the transmitting wireless device at antenna j and sampled, simultaneously with reception at antenna I and sampling of sampled received signals S, function being independent of power level at which transmitting device is transmitting, and to estimate transmitting wireless device's location within volume by comparing the parameter/s to reference output parameters respectively having known correspondence to known possible locations/s within volume, for at least 2 of the antennae.

A moving cellular communication system comprising at least one upgraded moving relay including at least two base station functionalities and at least one mobile station functionality and a relay resource manager, all co-located, wherein each base station functionality from among the at least two base station functionalities of the upgraded moving relay is operative to communicate via antennae with at least one mobile station thereby to define a first radio link therebetween, and wherein each base station functionality has a connection to its co-located relay resource manager, wherein each mobile station functionality of the upgraded moving relay communicates via antennae with a unit which has base station functionality thereby to define at least one second radio link, respectively, wherein the relay resource manager in each individual moving relay comprises a radio resource manager; and functionality for exchanging information with relay resource managers is included in moving relays other than the individual moving relay.

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Ashkelon, Israel

Yaakov Shoshan