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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110268017 | FLEXIBLE CAPACITY SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM WITH DYNAMIC DISTRIBUTION AND COVERAGE AREAS Systems and methods for supporting more flexible coverage areas and spatial capacity assignments using satellite communications systems are disclosed. Antenna elements are arranged in one or more phased arrays. The phased arrays may be used to receive uplink communicati... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110176479 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DOPPLER AND LOCAL OSCILLATOR COMPENSATION IN A TDMA SYSTEM System and method for determining an optimal transmission center frequency for a traffic station (30) in a satellite communication system (100) includes transmitting, by the traffic station (30) in a first uplink channel, a first burst of informatio... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20100322150 | CYCLICAL OBSTRUCTION COMMUNICATION SYSTEM Techniques for enabling broadband data rates at mobile terminals in a beyond-line-of-sight communication system are disclosed. Forward link time-diversity transmission methods and a time-diversity transmitter based upon blockage characteristics are provided. The transmi... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100284324 | Multiple Return Link A system and method for improving efficiency of satellite communications is described. In one embodiment, multiple return links are associated with a single forward link to reduce communications costs.... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100284323 | HIGHLY INTEGRATED VERY SMALL APERTURE TERMINAL (VSAT) APPARATUS AND METHOD A method, and a VSAT capable of being configured for such a method, of configuring a VSAT, the steps of which are setting, while an outdoor unit of the VSAT is at a configuration location, a maximum value of the adjustable gain of the up-converting device and transmitti... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100195563 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF PROVIDING EFFICIENT PACKETIZED VOICE COMMUNCATIONS AND DATA BEARERS IN MOBILE SATELLITE SYSTEMS A broadband satellite communications system comprises forward error correction (FEC) encoder/decoder, interleaver/deinterleaver, puncturing/de-puncturing, scrambler/descrambler, bit to symbol mapping/de-mapping devices, modulator/demodulator, transmit and receive filter... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100189028 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR BROADCASTING DIGITAL SERVICES Method and system for broadcasting digital services comprising a plurality of receiver sets located in several regions and at least one broadcasting facility which rebroadcasts several services with region-specific contents in a single transport stream (TS) consisting o... | 07/29/2010 |
| 20100118769 | TERMINAL SLOT ASSIGNMENT FOR A SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM Novel satellite communications systems, methods, and related devices are described. In some embodiments, a satellite communications system is configured to dynamically allocate bandwidth to terminals. Such a system may be made up of a satellite in communication with ter... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100074167 | Downstream Time Domain Based Adaptive Modulation for DOCSIS Based Applications In a DOCSIS based satellite gateway data is transmitted over a single downstream channel, at different throughput rates. Data destined for each subscriber/receiver is assigned a throughput rate depending upon the downstream signal quality of that subscriber/receiver. To... | 03/25/2010 |
| 20100034136 | Transparent Mesh Overlay in Hub-Spoke Satellite Networks In a satellite-based communication network comprised of a central hub and plurality of remote terminals configured to transmit data to and receive data from the central hub in accordance with EN 301 790 (DVB-RCS), and where one or more of these remote terminals may be c... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20100009677 | INTEGRATED OR AUTONOMOUS SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SATELLITE-TERRESTRIAL FREQUENCY REUSE USING SIGNAL ATTENUATION AND/OR BLOCKAGE, DYNAMIC ASSIGNMENT OF FREQUENCIES AND/OR HYSTERESIS A signal strength that is associated with a first wireless communications channel is detected. Electromagnetic energy is transmitted over the first wireless communications channel in response to the signal strength being sufficiently weak. A determination is made whethe... | 01/14/2010 |
| 20090296629 | RETURN LINK POWER CONTROL Satellite communication methods and systems are disclosed. Various embodiments employ dummy bursts to monitor the communication channel between a user terminal and a hub. In some embodiments, dynamic link adaptation can also be employed to optimize channel performance. ... | 12/03/2009 |
| 20090290535 | MULTI-USER DETECTION IN SATELLITE RETURN LINK Use of multi-user detection (MUD) with a frequency-multiplexed satellite return link (scheduling algorithms, etc) is described. The satellite return link may utilize multi-frequency time division multiple access (MF-TDMA). The satellite return link may include a plurali... | 11/26/2009 |
| 20090290536 | High Data Rate Multiplexing Satellite Stream to Low Data Rate Subscriber Terminals A satellite modem for broadband communication. The satellite modem receives a satellite signal on a single carrier from a satellite. The satellite signal is divided by time division multiplexing into physical sub-channels encapsulating logical downstreams. The satellite... | 11/26/2009 |
| 20090279475 | DYNAMIC LINK ASSIGNMENT IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM An architecture for the dynamic assignment of links in a multi-user communication system. A plurality of information channels are provided in a forward communication link of the communication system for carrying channel information of the plurality of information channe... | 11/12/2009 |
| 20090213782 | RANDOM ACCESS SLOT SELECTION IN A COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM A communications system (20) includes a resource controller (22) and a terminal (24) in communication with the resource controller (22). Periodically, the resource controller (22) sends a service announcement (46) that identifie... | 08/27/2009 |
| 20090147728 | Wireless Cooperative Relay Network Transmitting Data using Imperfect CSI A method, system and network transmit data from a base station, via relay stations, to user stations. Imperfect channel state information (CSI) for downlink channels from the base station and the relay stations to the user stations is acquired. For each candidate transm... | 06/11/2009 |
| 20090097435 | Method and apparatus for controlling transmissions in communication systems In a bandwidth allocation protocol for a mobile communications network, mobile terminals indicate the total quantity of data awaiting transmission, the maximum delay time of the most urgent portion of the data, and the maximum delay time of the least urgent portion. If ... | 04/16/2009 |
| 20090059839 | Broadband Satellite System and Method Implementations of broadband satellite systems may comprise systems implementing embodiments of one, two or all of the aspects of distributed leadership, distributed bandwidth allocation and distributed timing. In systems implementing distributed leadership aspects, the... | 03/05/2009 |
| 20090022088 | Systems and methods for mobile satellite communications Systems and methods of satellite communications for moving terminals, including but not limited to on-the-move and mobile terminals (e.g., on-the-pause terminals), are implemented in certain embodiments using smaller antennas (e.g., aperture area with diameter less than... | 01/22/2009 |
| 20090016260 | MF-TDMA FREQUENCY HOPPING Systems, methods, and devices are described for scheduling and mapping upstream communications in a satellite communications system. The disclosure includes various channelization and frequency hopping techniques. A gateway is described to perform novel allocation of ti... | 01/15/2009 |
| 20080186905 | Quality Of Service Provisioning Using Periodic Channel Time Allocation To maximize power saving performance without compromising on the QoS requirement of an application stream, a method and wireless network device generates a subset of a periodic service interval can be used for medium time allocation and data and information can be trans... | 08/07/2008 |
| 20080144564 | Wireless non-cellular network A communication method includes monitoring a time division multiple access (TDMA) frame structure of a cellular system by a plurality of non-cellular nodes of a non-cellular network by using a common channel of the cellular system, and using the time division multiple a... | 06/19/2008 |
| 20080062914 | System and method for radio frequency resource allocation Systems and methods for allocating radio frequency resources are provided. The radio frequency resources are allocated to a mobile station in time or frequency alignment based on signal quality measures. In an orthogonal frequency division multiple access system, the al... | 03/13/2008 |
| 20080049661 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADAPTIVE MULTI-RATE (AMR) VOCODER RATE ADAPTATION The present invention includes a time-division-multiple-access (TDMA) communication system having a base station and at least one mobile station, each transmitting and receiving an analog radio-frequency signal carrying digitally coded speech. The speech is encoded usin... | 02/28/2008 |
| 20080043663 | Satellite communication with multiple active gateways Methods and apparatus are disclosed to enable a fixed or a mobile ground based slave stations (VSAT: Very Small Aperture Terminal) in a communication network to receive TDM transmissions from and transmit TDMA burst transmissions to one or more ground-based gateway stat... | 02/21/2008 |
| 20080025247 | INDICATING SPECIAL TRANSMISSIONS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS A wireless communication infrastructure entity assigns a plurality of schedulable wireless communication entities to a group wherein each entity is assigned a location within the group. The infrastructure entity indicates which of the plurality of schedulable wireless c... | 01/31/2008 |
| 20080025248 | Space Time Block Code Communications with Co-Operative Relays Methods, systems and apparatuses are provided for transmitting and receiving space-time block coded data in a wireless communications system with co-operative relays. A source node transmits RF signals representing first and second sets of data symbols in respective fir... | 01/31/2008 |
| 20080019298 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING USING A PLURALITY OF TDMA MESH NETWORKS HAVING EFFICIENT BANDWIDTH USE In accordance with a non-limiting example of the present invention, a communications system includes a plurality of Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) mesh networks, each comprising a plurality of wireless nodes, each having a transmitter and receiver that communicate... | 01/24/2008 |
| 20080013474 | Wireless switch network architecture implementing layer 3 mobility domains Techniques and technologies are provided in which wireless switches, each supporting their own subnet, are configured as part of a mobility domain. Each wireless switch in the mobility domain can discover other wireless switches in the mobility domain upon joining the n... | 01/17/2008 |
| 20070206525 | Adaptive Data Rate Control for Narrowcast Networks A system to provide narrowcast communications uses adaptive data rate control to individual subscribers such that the effects of precipitation or other link conditions, which are not common to all subscribers, is mitigated. The invention takes advantage of the fact that... | 09/06/2007 |
| 20070195724 | Method and apparatus for transmitting broadcasting data with a plurality of information The present invention relates to an apparatus for broadcast data transmission and a method thereof A method for transmission of broadcast data includes a plurality of information that includes setting up a transmission period by information/time slot for each of the plu... | 08/23/2007 |
| 20070189198 | DETERMINATION OF PARAMETER VALUES OF AN UPLINK TRANSPORT CHANNEL The invention relates to a method and a network element for determining cell-based values of a parameter of a selected active uplink transport channel multiplexed with other transport channels to a dedicated physical channel. It is proposed that a value for the paramete... | 08/16/2007 |
| 20070147281 | Explicit congestion notification for DOCSIS based broadband communication systems Satellite communications are carried out using the Data Over Cable Interface Specification (DOCSIS). Satellite modems are notified of upstream channel congestion by inserting a congestion notification message in a medium access protocol (MAP) message for the upstream ch... | 06/28/2007 |
| 20070109988 | Efficient partitioning of control and data fields Embodiments describe efficient tradeoff of latencies with processing times. A single control field can be placed within a frame to tradeoff encoding time with decoding time. Alternatively, a control field can be split into two portions to achieve good latency performanc... | 05/17/2007 |
| 20070097902 | Differential clock recovery in packet networks Where a common network clock is available at both a TDM receiver and a TDM transmitter which communicate via a packet network, differential clock recovery can be accomplished by matching the number of service clock pulses in a network reference clock period at the trans... | 05/03/2007 |
| 20070053316 | Method and system of accessing a de-keyed base station A method and system of accessing a de-keyed base station is disclosed. The method and system comprise de-keying a base station in a conventional TDMA communications system and starting a timer in the base station when the base station de-keys. The method and system furt... | 03/08/2007 |
| 20070025285 | Access burst and normal burst mix-mode support for GSM/GPRS compliant handsets An access burst and normal burst mix-mode support for GSM/GPRS compliant handsets is provided and may comprise transmitting bursts of different data types within a single GSM frame by a single GSM device, wherein the data types may comprise access burst and normal burst... | 02/01/2007 |
| 20070019581 | Technique for transferring data from a time division multiplexing network onto a packet network A technique for processing data carried by a Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) channel in a TDM network. A data stream associated with a TDM channel is monitored to determine if it contains data frames. If so, the channel associated with the data stream enters a clear ch... | 01/25/2007 |
| 20070002785 | EXPOSURE APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND MASK STAGE THEREFOR In an embodiment a mask stage is used for an exposure process. The mask stage includes a first module. The first module includes a plurality of support surfaces on which a plurality of masks are mounted. The first module has a substantially cylindrical shape having a ca... | 01/04/2007 |
