Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090195354 | Authenticating a signal based on an unknown component thereof - Authentication of a signal, signal | 08-06-2009 |
20090195443 | Authenticating a signal based on an unknown component thereof - Authentication of a signal, signal | 08-06-2009 |
20100241864 | AUTHENTICATING AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT BASED ON STORED INFORMATION - Exemplary embodiments provide methods and systems of authenticating an integrated circuit (IC). The manufacturing location of an IC is authenticated by storing in the IC a local signature derived from a GPS signal that was received at the manufacturing location at the time of manufacture. A remote signature is derived from a GPS signal that was received at a remote site nearly simultaneously as the reception of the GPS signal at the manufacturing location. The local signature is compared to the remote signature at an authentication site to determine the authenticity of the IC. | 09-23-2010 |
20100283671 | Receiver with means for ensuring bona fide of received signals - A receiver that receives a plurality of signals that are modulated with a common carrier, where each signal of said signals originates at a different source and experiences a transit delay and Doppler frequency shift before reaching the receiver, and where the transit delay and Doppler frequency shift are related to position and movement of each of the respective sources. The receiver includes means, such as a directional antenna, to ensure that the received signals are bona fide, or at least not subject to the same bogus signal or signals to which a second receiver may be subjected. | 11-11-2010 |
20100284441 | Receiver for GPS-like signals - A module for receiving a plurality of signals that are modulated with a common carrier, where each of the signals includes information that enables a determination of a distance from said receiver to a source that transmits the signal, and outputs to outside the module a digital representation of a downshifted replica of the received signals or, alternatively, outputs a stored and delayed version of the downshifted replica of the received signals together with information about the delay. | 11-11-2010 |
20100284442 | Authenticating a signal based on an unknown component thereof - Authentication of a signal, signal | 11-11-2010 |
20110181470 | Geosecurity methods and devices using geotags derived from noisy location data from multiple sources - In a geo-security system, a device receives RF signals from multiple distinct classes of RF communication systems and extracts location-dependent signal parameters. A current geotag is computed from the parameters by fuzzy extractors involving quantization of the parameters and Reed-Solomon decoding to provide a reproducible unique geotag. The current geotag is compared with a stored geotag, and a geo-secured function of the device is executed based on the result of the comparison. The use of multiple signal sources of different types, combined with special fuzzy extractors provides a robust geotag that allows both lower false rejection rate and lower false acceptance rate. | 07-28-2011 |
20120032841 | Arrangement With Means for Ensuring Bona Fide of Received Signals - An arrangement including a receiver that receives a plurality of signals from different source that are modulated with a common carrier, where each signal of the signals experiences a transit delay and Doppler frequency shift before reaching the receiver. The receiver includes means, such as a directional antenna, to ensure that the received signals are bona fide, or at least not subject to the same bogus signal or signals to which a second receiver may be subjected. The arrangement further includes means for processing a signal derived from the signals received by the receiver with signals provided by a supplicant module to reach a conclusion about the bona fide of the signals provided by the supplicant module. | 02-09-2012 |
20120038509 | Receiver for GPS-Like Signals - A module for receiving a plurality of signals that are modulated with a common carrier, where each of the signals includes information that enables a determination of a distance from said receiver to a source that transmits the signal, and outputs to outside the module a digital representation of a downshifted replica of the received signals or, alternatively, outputs a stored and delayed version of the downshifted replica of the received signals together with information about the delay. | 02-16-2012 |
20120057658 | Authenticating a Signal Based on an Unknown Component Thereof - Authentication of a signal, signal | 03-08-2012 |
20130176168 | Controlled access satellite navigation receiver - A controlled access satellite navigation receiver has only incomplete knowledge of secret codes transmitted by satellites. This incomplete knowledge allows only intermittent position determination. Incomplete secret codes and the intermittent positions they provide are useful for authenticating navigation signals or controlling access to secret satellite services. | 07-11-2013 |
20130344900 | ESTIMATING THE LOCATION OF A WIRELESS TERMINAL DESPITE APPARENTLY REASONABLE BUT MISLEADING OR ERRONEOUS EMPIRICAL DATA - A location engine is disclosed that estimates the location of a wireless terminal using (i) cell ID, (ii) triangulation, (iii) GPS, (iv) RF pattern-matching, or (v) any combination of them. The location engine is adept at discounting the contribution of apparently reasonable but erroneous data. The location engine receives data that are evidence of the location of a wireless terminal at each of a plurality of different times. The location engine then generates an initial hypothesis for the location of the wireless terminal at each time assuming that all of the data is correct and equally probative. Next, the location engine generates one alternative hypothesis for each initial hypothesis and each datum assuming that the datum is erroneous. Finally, the location engine generates the estimate for the location of the wireless terminal at each time by determining which combination of initial hypotheses and alternative hypothesis is the most self-consistent. | 12-26-2013 |