Method and apparatus for determining the receptivity of radio signals

US7457596B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. · DE

Inventors

• Heinz Gerhaeuser · Erlangen, DE
• Georg Plenge · Thanning, DE
• Dieter Seitzer · Erlangen, DE
• Robert Sedlmeyer · Ismaning, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 16, 1995
• Grant date: Nov 25, 2008
• Expiry date: Jan 16, 2015

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04H20/67
• WIPO field: Telecommunications
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A method and apparatus for determining the receptivity of radio signals at any given receiving site in an area covered by at least one transmitter by comparing data stored and continuously updated in a receiver against data transmitted, and identifying and selecting from all the transmitted radio signals a preferred radio signal.