Abstract: The embodiments disclose a system and method of generating personalized recommendations to alleviate loneliness including detecting, collecting, and organizing user information related to loneliness including sensing user information associated with a users' loneliness in a way that the user may remain anonymous, using user information to compute a user loneliness profile, using the user loneliness profile to compute one or more loneliness alleviation recommendations, presenting the one or more loneliness alleviation recommendations to the user, analyzing effectiveness of the one or more loneliness alleviation recommendations, using effectiveness analysis results and a user's loneliness profile to compute and store updates to databases and algorithms that compute all users' loneliness alleviation recommendations, converting a user's updated loneliness profile from updated user information and one or more loneliness alleviation recommendations effectiveness analysis results and using the updated user informati

Abstract: A method and system for collecting and distributing vehicle traffic congestion information is disclosed. The method and system optionally involves deploying probe vehicles or other data sources for collecting and transmitting detailed traffic information which describes vehicle speeds actually being experienced along the routes of interest and transmitting all this information into a central computer at a central traffic data station, where the data are processed.

Abstract: A satellite-based communications system operating at high data rates includes a plurality of satellites each having uplink and downlink antennas for transmitting and receiving a plurality of signal utilizing a plurality of spot beams to and from a plurality of coverage areas at a predetermined range of frequencies. The system also includes a plurality of user terminals for transmitting and receiving signals to and from the plurality of communications satellites at the predetermined range of frequencies and at one of the first plurality of data rates. Each of the user terminals having a steerable antenna for tracking relative movement of each of the user terminals with respect to each of the plurality of communications satellites are for tracking movement of each of the plurality of communications satellites in order to maintain communications with the plurality of communications satellite.

Abstract: A satellite-based communications system operating at high data rates includes a plurality of satellites each having uplink and downlink antennas for transmitting and receiving a plurality of signals utilizing a plurality of spot beams to and from a plurality of coverage areas at a predetermined range of frequencies. The system also includes a plurality of user terminals for transmitting and receiving signals to and from the plurality of communications satellites at the predetermined range of frequencies and at one of the first plurality of data rates. Each of the user terminals having a steerable antenna for tracking relative movement of each of the user terminals with respect to each of the plurality of communications satellites and for tracking movement of each of the plurality of communications satellites in order to maintain communications with the plurality of communications satellites.