Information management and control system

Abstract

A system 10 which is adapted to receive global positioning signals 14 from a satellite assembly 12 and which determines, displays, and selectively disseminates that error associated with the received signals to selected users at selected locations and at selected times. The system 10 also provides several other applications, including but not limited to the acquisition and selectively display of selective weather information, physical attributes of a facility, such as an airport, time distribution, collection and dissemination of user information as well as allowing one to simulate the performance of a global positioning acquisition and dissemination system. Such a simulation allows a user to dynamically specify the location and movement of signal generating satellites, the location of the various ground or reception stations, and to display certain other attributes or desired system characteristics. The simulation efficiently recognizes monitored ionoshperic ground points which are used to allow for a more accurate overall simulation that can be delivered to selected users at selected locations and at selected times.

Description

[0001] This application is a continuation of nonprovisional U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10 / 427,524, filed on Apr. 30, 2003, which was a divisional of and which claimed the benefit of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09 / 797,527, filed on Mar. 01, 2001, and which matured into U.S. Pat. No. 6,587,075.FIELD OF THE INVENTION [0002] The present invention generally relates to an information management, collection, control, and delivery system and more particularly, to a system which is adapted to receive, monitor, process, and deliver content and positioning information to / from selected users at various locations and selected times, such as and without limitation, global positioning satellite information and which is further adapted to provide and / or dynamically create several applications, each of which, in one non-limiting embodiment of the invention are, respectively, resident upon a unique and separate computer hardware platform, effective to reduce software development and integr...

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Benefits of technology

[0007] It is a first non-limiting advantage of the present invention to provide a system for receiving positioning information, for determining error associated with the received positioning information, and for selectively disseminating the existence and / or the amount of the determined error in an efficient manner to selected users at selected locations and selected times.

[0008] It is a second non-limiting advantage of the present invention to provide a system for allowing a user to simulate the performance of an information reception system, effective to allow a user at any location and time to create a positional information acquisition and dissemination system which achieves a desired level of operational performance.

[0009] It is a third non-limiting advantage of the present invention to provide a system for receiving certain positional information and for storing and selectively displaying certain information concerning the physical attributes and / or characteristics of a wide variety of facilities, such as and without limitation airports, bus terminals, train stations, boat terminals and / or any other transportation-related structures.

[0010] It is a fourth non-limiting advantage of the present invention to provide a system for receiving certain positional information and for determining the error associated with the received information by use of a spectrum analysis optimized for a specific location at a specific time for a specific type of user equipment.

[0011] It is a fifth non-limiting advantage of the present invention to receive and disseminate certain positional information and for using the positional information to track the progress of and / or to determine the position of an aircraft and the other aircraft close-by, other apparatus, or other animate or inanimate objects over specific area / locations and at specific times.

[0012] It is a sixth non-limiting advantage of the present invention to efficiently calculate and / or determine the existence of available or monitored ionspheric ground points, effective to allow a user of the system of the preferred embodiment of the invention to perform an operational simulation of a positional information acquisition and dissemination system in an efficient manner.

Problems solved by technology

While such positioning information is useful and widely used, it is oftentimes undesirably errant and provides inaccurate position information.

Such undesired inaccuracies may be caused from a variety of sources, such as and without limitation, the ground based receiver assembly which initially receives the satellite based and / or generated position signal, destructive interference of the signals, and / or faults occurring within the satellites and / or within the processing assemblies which receive the signals from the ground based receiver.

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