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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 04, 1998
Richard Coleman, Washington, DC (US);
Other;
Abstract
A system is disclosed for transmitting data from satellites to unmanned or manned air vehicles (U/MAVs), and then from U/MAVs to Gateway/customer premise equipment (Gateway/CPE). Conversely, the system transmits data from the Gateway/CPEs to the U/MAVs, and then from the U/MAVs to satellites. The transmission between the satellites and U/MAVs involves optical or high frequency microwaves, and the transmission between the U/MAVs and the Gateway/CPEs occurs at lower microwave frequencies. A converting unit within the U/MAVs convert the data between the optical and higher microwave frequencies and the lower microwave frequencies. In another embodiment, data is crosslinked by transmitting it from a first U/MAV to other U/MAVs.