Methods and systems for data communications

US9513630B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• General Electric Company · US

Inventors

• Santhanakrishnan Rajendran · Bengaluru, IN
• Praful Babuji Vihol · Bengaluru, IN
• Dibyajyoti Pati · San Ramon, US
• Jared Klineman Cooper · Melbourne, US
• Robert James Foy · Melbourne, US
• David Michael Peltz · Melbourne, US
• Eugene Smith · Sharpsburg, US
• Steven Andrew Kellner · Melbourne, US
• Brian William Schroeck · Melbourne, US
• Keith Gilbertson · Grain Valley, US
• Joseph Forrest Noffsinger · Lee's Summit, US
• Wolfgang Daum · Erie, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 9, 2015
• Grant date: Dec 6, 2016
• Expiry date: Sep 9, 2035

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04W88/06
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A wireless communication device of a vehicle system includes one or more antennas configured to be disposed onboard a first vehicle of the vehicle system, a first modem configured to be disposed onboard the first vehicle and to communicate a first wireless signal to one or more of a second vehicle of the vehicle system or an off-board device using the one or more antennas, and a second modem configured to be disposed onboard the first vehicle and to communicate a second wireless signal to the one or more of the second vehicle or the off-board device using the one or more antennas. The first modem is configured to communicate the first wireless signal via a first type of wireless communication link and the second modem is configured to communicate the second wireless signal via a different, second type of wireless communication link.