GB2436185A - Disruption of data transmission - Google Patents

Abstract

Transmission of data e.g. biological data via a system involving a magnetic field, e.g. the earth's field, may be disrupted by a generator which produces a similar magnitude field. This disrupting field may vary cyclically, be a series of patterns selected randomly or be a pseudo-randomly varying field. The device may be embodied as a digital timepiece, e.g. wristwatch or clock.

Description

<p>DESCRIPTION</p>

<p>This is the description of the Telemetry Disrupter (ID).</p>

<p>In the following description, the term "random" and it's derivatives (e.g. "randomly") embraces (for legal purposes) the term "pseudo-random", in the computer science sense of this term, as something which is, strictly speakuig, deterministic, but wh icli, pragmatically speaking, is virtually utterl unpredictable.</p>

<p>More than one implementation (or "mode)") of the TD will probably he developed over time, referred to hereinafter as being "less" or "more" "advanced" models of the I'D. Typically, "less" advanced niodels will he those developed, manufactured and marketed earliest and less expensively. In contrast, "more" advanced models will be those developed, manufactured and marketed latest and more expensively.</p>

<p>A TD of any model will create magnetic fields which, locally to itself, are of the same order of magnitude as the earth's local magnetic field, or of a stronger order of magnitude. The magnetic fields generated will vary over time.</p>

<p>Examples of the variation over time of the magnetic fields generated by less thru more advanced models of the TD are as follows I. A single repeating pattern, such as could be accomplished (in one of the least advanced cases of all) by rotating mechanically a single adequately strong permanent magnet at a constant angular velocity in a single plane.</p>

<p>2. A finite number of repeating patterns, each continued for a fixed or random interval, before a different repeating : ... pattern is selected randomly I...</p>

<p>3. Completely random variation of the generated magnetic fields, subject to their compliance with whatever parameters fed by the manufacturer or (in the most advanced models) the user, into an electronically executed : ** algorithm fbr determining the random variations of the generated field. S...</p>

<p>* The power source for fixed location TD models is most likely to be a mains electricity supply. The power source for mobile ID models designed to affect the magnetic field local to a user wearing or carrying such models might he the mechanical energy obtainable for the user's own perambulations (as in a pedometer), or batteries, whether :.: * rechargeable or replaceable. Some TD models may be developed which can operate temporarily locally to users wearing or carrying them whilst in transit, and more durably once the in transit users have settled in a location with * : : access to a power source, such as mains electricity supply.</p>

<p>The source of the magnetic fields which a TD model generates may be any combination of permanent magnets and electromagnets. The source of field variations may include the physical movement of permanent magnets, or the alteration of the electrical currents earned by electromagnets. It should he noted that at most three orthogonally oriented electromagnets are all that are required to enable the generation of a magnetic dipole that has variable maitude and any direction in three-dimensional space. This might imply that developing, manufacturing and marketing even the most advanced possible mode! of the TD could prove economically feasible, to the exclusion of all less advanced models, immediately a patent on the generic invention itself is granted.</p>

<p>The TD has been invented in order to disrupt any present or future method of lelemetry of biological or other data that relies upon the earths magnetic field or upon an artificially magnetic field applied locally of the order of</p>

<p>magnitude of the earth's magnetic field.</p>

<p>The deployment of any less advanced mode! of the i'D is extremely likely to require that any devices deployed for the purposes of such telemetry would require considerable enhancement if they were to continue to be capable of gathering data in the proximity of a deployed less advanced I'E) Any present or future telemetry that relies upon the earth's magnetic field or upon an artificially applied magnetic field of the order of magnitude of the earth's magnetic</p>

<p>field can be disrupted by a suitably advanced TD.</p>

<p>DRAWINGS</p>

<p>No drawings are provided in this specification, because none are required, or else to provide a finite set of drawings would restrict the scope of the invention being patented unduly The reasoning behind the above assertion is as follows Any number of different physical configurations of components is capable of implementing models of the TD as defined verbally in the description above, however advanced. ftc invention is entirely magnetic/electromagnetic, and (potentially) electronic or mechanical and (potentially) software-driven (though any such sofware is incidental, not of the essence of the invention itself) The physical shape, shape, size and appearance of any 1 D model, or its energy source, is not material to its function, even though (ftr example) cost and aesthetic considerations will eventually impact decisions about what is actually manufactured and marketed.</p>

<p>In this respect, the FD invention presents difficulties, when it comes to supplying drawings, akin to those presented by the digital timepiece, which can be made any way one wishes (e.g. as a wrist watch, mantelpiece clock or pocket watch). Provided that the essential elements of an internal electronic clock and a digital display (e g. light- emitting diode, or liquid crystal display) are combined, one has created an instance of the generic class of machines called digital timepieces" To draw every possible digital timepiece would be impractical. To draw only one would make the definition too marrow to protect the invention. To draw every possible ID is impractical in much the same way.</p>

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Claims (1)

1. <p>CLAIMS</p>

   <p>I wish to protect by patent the Telemetry Disrupter (TI)) The distinctive technical features to he protected are: I The deliberate generation of a varying magnetic field that permeates the space outside the invention, NOT for some secondary purpose, nor as a side effect of the inventions internal workings, hut as the primary purpose of the invention itself 2 The application, electronically and/or software-implemented, of measures taken to ensure that variations in the generated magnetic field cannot he predicted by any present or future telemetry devices whose operation the TD is able to disrupt, provided that the ID model deployed is adequately advanced to disrupt any telemetry device being deployed 3. l'he tailoring of the design of actual models dcveloped of the ID precisely to its main purpose of disrupting telemetry. S. * * * ISS S... * * * SS * SS * * S I... * *..</p>

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