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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 08, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2001
Craig William Hudson, Amity, OR (US);
John Thomas Pratt, Salem, OR (US);
United Parcel Service of America, Inc., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
A surveillance transceiver system is provided for receiving extended squitters from Mode S transponders, translating the squitters into ADS-B state vectors in UAT format, and transmitting the ADS-B state vectors using a Universal Access Transceiver (UAT) datalink. The surveillance transceiver system bridges the gap created by differently-equipped aircraft by using multiple datalinks to provide seamless ADS-B surveillance. The module for processing the extender squitters includes a 1090 MHz receiver and a computer processor in communication with the UAT processor for parsing the squitter and composing the ADS-B state vector in UAT format for broadcast.