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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 10, 2015
Maxtena, Inc., Rockville, MD (US);
Nathan Cummings, Gaithersburg, MD (US);
Stanislav Licul, Washington, DC (US);
Carlo DiNallo, San Carlos, CA (US);
Maxtena, Inc., Rockville, MD (US);
Abstract
A system includes a phased array antenna that is used to emulate antennas that have larger solid angle coverage and lower gain compared to a single beam of the phased array antenna. This is achieved by switching between beams of the phased array antenna while receiving a wireless communication signal and summing representations of signal energy received using the different beams. The system can be used to narrow down the angular coordinates of a transmitting satellite by emulating antenna patterns that cover portions of a search space. The system can also be used to determine a channel discriminator (e.g., frequency, code, time slot) that defines a signal being transmitted.