On Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:11:44 -0700, Jim Lux
wrote:
Here's my favorite:
http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=N_sEAAAAEBAJ&dq=5,982,276
Not exactly an antenna. It uses a MASER to (somehow) magnetically
couple Gigabit data to the power lines. The company is still around:
http://www.mediafusionllc.net
And reforming:
"The Media Fusion Team is now re-forming. Mr. William "Luke" Stewart
will act a temporary President and Chief Executive as well as Chief
Scientist. As other key resources are identified and recruited they
will become part of the Media Fusion, LLC Team. A recruiting committee
has been formed and recommendations are now being considered."
perhaps because of
15 dec 2006.. Preliminary settlement agreement signed by the honorable
Judge Ann Ashby, presiding Judge, 134th District Court, Dallas, Texas.
The old web sites are rather interesting:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.mediafusionllc.net
My favorite is the photos of the interface controller built into a
wall outlet box:
http://web.archive.org/web/20000229124801/www.mediafusionllc.net/northamerica/main/tech/interface.html
I showed it to a friend in the power industry who had some interesting
things to say about sharing a power outlet box with phone and cable.
However, the 14 flashing lights are kinda cool.
The problem with such patents is that if someone actually invents a
decent way to couple, distribute, and switch gigabit data on the power
lines, they'll end up in court fighting this patent. This is also
known as a "blocking patent".
It's sometimes fun to see where they spend their money. In 1999, they
burned $120K on lobbying. In 2000, they only wasted $70K.
https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?lname=Media+Fusion+LLC&id=Y000003383 20&year=1999
Also, I dunno about the FTL (faster than light) antenna design. That
implies that the acknowledgements will arrive before the
transmissions, which will surely confuse a T/R switch. Perhaps a
predictive T/R switch will help (one that switches before one intends
to switch it).
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