Using harmonics for fulfilling multiple jobs simultaneously

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10461801-B2
Application number	US-201715851122-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 21, 2017
Priority date	Dec 21, 2017
Publication date	Oct 29, 2019
Grant date	Oct 29, 2019

Abstract

A method can include determining whether, based on job data and in completing a first job of jobs with a transmission at a fundamental frequency, a harmonic frequency of the fundamental frequency satisfies a second job of the jobs, and transmitting the transmission with the fundamental frequency and the harmonic frequency to complete the first and second jobs, respectively and simultaneously.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A device comprising:
transmit circuitry;
a memory including job data indicating characteristics of jobs to be completed using the transmit circuitry, the characteristics indicating a frequency, power, and location of a transmission required to complete a job of the jobs;
at least one hardware processor coupled to the transmit circuitry and the memory, the at least one hardware processor configured to:
determine whether, based on the job characteristics and in completing a first job of the jobs with a signal at a fundamental frequency, a harmonic frequency of the fundamental frequency satisfies all characteristics of a second job of the jobs, the first job associated with a first device and the second job associated with a different, second device;
in response to a determination that the harmonic frequency of the fundamental frequency does not satisfy all characteristics of the second job, adjusting a beam width of the fundamental frequency of the signal so that the harmonic frequency of the signal satisfies the second job; and
cause the transmit circuitry to transmit the signal including the fundamental frequency and the harmonic frequency to fulfill the first and second jobs, respectively and simultaneously.

2. The device of claim 1 , wherein the transmit circuitry includes an amplifier and the harmonic frequency and the fundamental frequency are provided as input to the amplifier.

3. The device of claim 1 , wherein the transmit circuitry includes an amplifier and the harmonic frequency is produced by the amplifier.

4. The device of claim 1 , wherein the transmit circuitry includes a Gallium Nitride (GaN) amplifier.

5. The device of claim 1 , wherein the transmit circuitry includes an antenna array configured to transmit the fundamental frequency and the harmonic frequency simultaneously.

6. The device of claim 5 , wherein the antenna array is an active electronically scanned array (AESA).

7. The device of claim 1 , wherein the at least one hardware processor is further configured to:
determine whether adjusting a characteristic of the signal causes a harmonic frequency of the adjusted signal to fulfill the second job of the jobs; and
in response to a determination that the adjusted signal satisfies the second job by adjusting a direction of the harmonic frequency, adjust the signal so that the adjusted signal fulfills the first job the second job simultaneously.

8. The device of claim 1 , wherein the memory further includes data indicating a priority for each job of the jobs, and wherein the first job is the job with the highest priority and the second job is a job of lower priority than the first job.

9. The device of claim 1 , wherein the at least one hardware processor is further configured to, in response to a determination that the harmonic frequency of the fundamental frequency does not satisfy all characteristics of the second job, control the transmit circuitry to adjust a direction of the fundamental frequency so that the fundamental frequency of the signal satisfies the first job and the harmonic frequency of the signal satisfies the second job.

10. A method of completing jobs simultaneously, the method comprising:
determining, by at least one hardware processor of a device, whether, based on job data and in completing a first job of jobs with a transmission at a fundamental frequency, a harmonic frequency of the fundamental frequency satisfies all characteristics of a second job of the jobs, the first job associated with a first device and the second job associated with a different, second device;
in response to a determination that the harmonic frequency of the fundamental frequency does not satisfy all characteristics of the second job, controlling the transmit circuitry to adjust a direction of the fundamental frequency so that the fundamental frequency of the signal satisfies the first job and the harmonic frequency of the signal satisfies the second job; and
transmitting, by transmit circuitry of the device, the transmission with the fundamental frequency and the harmonic frequency to complete the first and second jobs, respectively and simultaneously.

11. The method of claim 10 , further comprising:
receiving, at an amplifier of the transmit circuitry, signals at the harmonic frequency and the fundamental frequency; and
amplifying, using the amplifier, the signals.

12. The method of claim 10 , further comprising:
receiving, at an amplifier of the transmit circuitry, signals at the fundamental frequency; and
operating the amplifier to produce the amplified fundamental frequency signals and signals at the harmonic frequency.

13. The method of claim 12 , wherein the amplifier includes a Gallium Nitride (GaN) amplifier.

14. The method of claim 10 , wherein the transmit circuitry includes an antenna array configured to transmit the fundamental frequency and the harmonic frequency simultaneously.

15. At least one non-transitory machine-readable storage device including instructions stored thereon that, when executed by a machine, configure the machine to perform operations comprising:
determining whether, based on job data stored in a memory and in completing a first job of jobs with a transmission at a fundamental frequency, a harmonic frequency of the transmission satisfies all characteristics of a second job of the jobs, the first job associated with a first device and the second job associated with a different, second device;
in response to a determination that the harmonic frequency of the fundamental frequency does not satisfy all characteristics of the second job, adjusting a beam width of the fundamental frequency of the signal so that the harmonic frequency of the signal satisfies the second job; and
producing one or more signals that cause transmit circuitry to transmit the transmission with the fundamental frequency and the harmonic frequency to complete the first and second jobs, respectively and simultaneously.

16. The at least one non-transitory machine-readable storage device of claim 15 , wherein the at least one hardware processor is further configured to:
determine whether adjusting a characteristic of the transmission causes an adjusted harmonic frequency of the transmission to satisfy the second job; and
in response to a determination that the adjusted harmonic frequency satisfies the second job, adjusting the transmission so that an adjusted harmonic frequency of the adjusted transmission fulfills the second job.

17. The at least one non-transitory machine-readable storage device of claim 15 , wherein the memory further includes data indicating a priority for each job of the jobs, and wherein the first job is the job with the highest priority and the second job is a job of lower priority than the first job.

18. The at least one non-transitory machine-readable storage device of claim 15 , wherein the operations further include control the transmit circuitry to adjust a direction of a fundamental frequency of the transmission so that the fundamental frequency satisfies the first job and the harmonic frequency satisfies the second job.

Assignees

• Raytheon Co

Inventors

• Noble William B
• Yang Kevin
• Behrens Christopher J

Classifications

• H04B7/02

  Diversity systems; Multi-antenna system, i.e. transmission or reception using multiple antennas (RAKE receivers H04B1/7115) · CPC title

• H04B1/0475 Primary

  with means for limiting noise, interference or distortion (H04B1/0483 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H03F3/189

  High-frequency amplifiers, e.g. radio frequency amplifiers · CPC title

• H01Q23/00

  Antennas with active circuits or circuit elements integrated within them or attached to them · CPC title

• H04B2001/0408

  with power amplifiers · CPC title