Patent ID: 8692705

Claim:
An apparatus for generating low latency position information from position signals transmitted in a narrow bandwidth channel of a radio frequency, such apparatus comprising: a processing module of an ownship communication device configured to receive data representative of ownship position from a navigation data source; generate an ownship position signal representative of ownship position; transmit the ownship position signal to a processing module of each target communication device of a network if a position reporting time slot allocated to the ownship communication device in an interface protocol has been reached, where the network is comprised of the ownship communication device and at least one target communication device, the ownship communication device and each target communication device employ the interface protocol, the interface protocol is defined by a plurality of time slots comprised of a plurality of position reporting time slots, a voice contention time slot, and an order wire time slot within which each communication device of the network is allocated one unique position reporting time slot, and each position signal is transmitted in a narrow bandwidth channel of a radio frequency; receive at least one target position signal, where each target position signal is transmitted by the processing module of one target communication device if the position reporting time slot allocated to such target communication device in the interface protocol has been reached; and generate target data representative of each received target position signal, where the target data is representative of low latency position information of at least one target.