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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189504 | Physical layer header structure for decoding and synchronization Systems, devices, processors, and methods are described which may be used for the reception of a wireless broadband signal at a user terminal from a gateway via a satellite. A wireless signal may include a series of physical layer frames, each frame including a phys... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8179832 | System and method for providing an improved terrestrial subsystem for use in mobile satellite systems A system or method is disclosed which employs filters on a satellite whose bandwidth is varied by ground command to restrict interference experienced by a satellite as an auxiliary terrestrial component (ATC) system is increased to a multiplicity of cities and marke... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175026 | Resource management in mesh satellite communication systems A method of allocating resources in a mesh-connected communication network comprising a plurality of terminals, and a limited quantity of communication resources for allocation between said terminals, comprises: a request phase in which a plurality of terminals calc... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8169946 | Aircraft communications system with hard handoff and associated methods A communications system for an aircraft carrying at least some personnel having personal electronic devices (PEDs) for wireless data communications outside the aircraft includes a ground-based communications network comprising spaced apart base stations, and an acce... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165060 | Method and system for monitoring and switching between primary and back-up uplink signal processing circuits in a satellite communication system A system and method includes a first uplink signal processing circuit, a second uplink signal processing circuit and an IP network communicating the plurality of channel signals to the first uplink signal processing circuit to form a first output signal. A monitorin... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8159993 | 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 plu... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159994 | 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 satel... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159992 | Routing paths onboard satellite with reference terminal functionality Satellite communications systems, methods, and related devices are described. A satellite communications system may include routing and switching functionality onboard the satellite. Such a system may include a satellite in communication with terminals (e.g., subscr... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159995 | Method and facility for selecting satellite channels A method for selecting satellite channels in a transmission system consisting of a data source, a data sink, satellite modems and a satellite radio link with a general channel and at least one dedicated channel is provided. The data sink prompts the data source, as ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155050 | Satellite communications interoperability module A satellite communications interoperability module and method for frequency down-conversion. The module insertable in-line with an intra-facility link communicating a multiplexed signal between the outdoor unit (ODU) and the indoor unit (IDU). Electrical circuitry o... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8149761 | Incrementally increasing deployment of gateways In one embodiment, a satellite communications system includes first and second receivers, splitters, and combiners. The first receiver is configured to receive a first microwave communications signal; and the first splitter is coupled to the first receiver and confi... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149762 | Satellite, mobile terminal, and complementary terrestrial component in OFDM based multi-beam satellite system reusing the same frequency band for all the beams, and communication method thereof Provided is a communication method of a mobile terminal in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) based multi-beam satellite system reusing the same frequency band for all the beams, the method including: receiving location information of the mobile te... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8139517 | Method of generating and demultiplexing an optimized contribution signal, and regionalized data broadcasting system The invention relates to a method of generating an optimized contribution signal comprising multiplexes. Each multiplex comprises global broadcasting services and its own combination of regional services. Each multiplex comprises stuffing packets and packets transpo... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8130693 | MIMO satellite system A satellite communication system is disclosed that utilizes multiple antenna for subscriber terminals to process streams. A first node relays a first stream between the ground station and the subscriber terminals. A second node relays the second lower information ra... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8130692 | Data handling in a distributed communication network In one embodiment, a system for data handling in a distributed communication network includes a data-handling node (DHN) residing at a mission management center (MMC). The MMC manages operations of one or more remote units. The DHN receives a stream of data units fr... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8111646 | Communication system for dynamically combining power from a plurality of propagation channels in order to improve power levels of transmitted signals without affecting receiver and propagation segments The present invention relates to a communication system and method that allows a transmitter segment (ground end of uplink segment) to dynamically combine power from plurality of propagation channels (transponders) in order to improve power levels of signals being t... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107410 | Map-triggered dump of packets in satellite communication system Upstream information arriving through a user terminal in a satellite link is efficiently scheduled through a modified Demand Assigned Multiple Access (DAMA) algorithm such that data packets arriving at the user terminal are concatenated to form a larger frame for tr... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8098612 | Apparatus and method for remote beam forming for satellite broadcasting systems A satellite broadcasting system is achieved in which remote beam forming processors located among distributed ground stations are used to control downlink beam footprints and pointing directions. Digital beam forming techniques allow a single satellite downlink broa... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8094605 | Aircraft communications system with network selection controller and associated methods A communications system for an aircraft carrying at least some personnel having personal electronic devices (PEDs) for wireless data communications outside the aircraft includes a ground-based communications network, and a satellite-based communications network. An ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8077652 | 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 o... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8077651 | Packet reformatting for downstream links Systems, devices, and methods are described for formatting packets for downstream satellite links. The generation of a broadband wireless signal is described, the signal to be transmitted between a gateway and subscriber terminals via satellite. Respective data link... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8045500 | Communication system and method for transmitting signals to a plurality of different types of receivers A communication system and method of communicating signals to a plurality of different types of receivers is provided. The communication system includes at least one transmitter that transmits high priority and low priority signals as a single frequency network. At ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8036155 | Method and system for adaptive modulation scheduling Provided is a method and system for transmitting MPEG frames between a DOCSIS based satellite modem termination system (SMTS) and a corresponding satellite modem (SM) system. The method includes identifying at least one data stream requiring transmission between the... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8005035 | Online output multiplexer filter measurement A method, apparatus, and system provide the ability to conduct an on-line measurement of an output multiplixer (OMUX) transfer function. A broadcast downlink signal is received from a satellite. The broadcast downlink signal is demodulated and then remodulated. The ... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7990907 | Mobile telephony An interface is provided between a satellite telephone system and a wireless telephone system for allowing calls to a user's wireless telephone to be diverted to a satellite telephone handset when the user is unable to use his wireless telephone, for example when on... | 08/02/2011 |
| RE42536 | High bandwidth delivery and internet access for airborne passengers A method and a communications system in which a request for data transmitted by an airborne transmitter over a low-bandwidth air-to-ground communication system uplink and received by a ground-based receiver. The requested data is then transmitted over a high-bandwid... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7978641 | Hybrid TDM/FDM uplink for spot-beam communication system A method, apparatus for uplinking data is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a plurality of receive antennae, independently directable to a plurality of ground stations, each disposed in one of a plurality of cells; a time domain concentrator, communicatively couple... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7961665 | Terminal aware multicasting Methods, systems, and devices are described for using adaptive coding and modulation (“ACM”) to adaptively communicate with a plurality of data terminals having different capabilities. Embodiments provide hierarchical communications of content, generated by appl... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7948929 | System for generating constant envelope simultaneous data and ranging waveform with anti-jam properties A communication system generates a constant-envelope composite signal containing at least two signals whose power levels, bandwidths, and/or data rates are independently controllable. Binary offset carrier (BOC) modulation is applied to the signals to be combined in... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7944872 | Adaptive coding and modulation aware network load balancing Methods, systems, and devices are described for determining a preferred routing path for communicating source data from a data source to a data terminal over a network having multiple routing path options. Embodiments include receiving a source dataset at a network ... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7940713 | Apparatus and method for traffic performance improvement and traffic security in interactive satellite communication system There are provided an apparatus and method for traffic performance improvement and traffic security in an interactive satellite communication system. The method for traffic performance improvement of an interactive satellite communication system includes the steps o... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940714 | Method, apparatus, and system for transmitting control information in a communication network A communication method for a communication network includes transmitting first control information for a first frame from a hub to a plurality of user nodes, and receiving first data bursts in the first frame from first and second user nodes according to the first c... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7936707 | Satellite communication bandwidth cross layer allocation system and related methods A satellite communications system may include a satellite, a first ground based satellite transceiver, at least one second ground based satellite transceiver, and at least one ground based terminal coupled to the at least one second ground based satellite transceive... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7920502 | Satellite telephony packetization techniques Embodiments of the present invention relate generally to packetization techniques for satellite transmission of data, such as telephony data. Some embodiments use the MPEG2 standard in connection with the ETSI DVB data piping profile for arranging the data. Embodime... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7920503 | Apparatus and method for transmitting packet in forward link of multibeam satellite communication system Provided are a packet transmission method for transmitting packets in a forward link of a multibeam satellite communication system and a computer-readable recording medium for recording a program that implements the method. The packet transmission method transmittin... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7899002 | Satellite/terrestrial wireless communications systems and methods using disparate channel separation codes A wireless communications system includes a space-based component (SBC) and an ancillary terrestrial component (ATC) configured to communicate with radioterminals using a common satellite service link frequency band and respective first and second different sets of ... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7864723 | System for satellite digital communications with onboard processing adaptive to the attenuation traffic and radio interface conditions for point to point communication and meshed grids The present invention provides apparatus for processing and regenerating the signals of telecommunication satellites, for meshed communications on multi-beam coverage between standard DVB-RCS and DVB-S2 user terminals and apparatus for filtering and routing the sign... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7860041 | Upstream adaptive modulation in a communications system A system and method for providing upstream adaptive modulation. Burst parameters associated with a range of data interval usage codes (IUCs) are defined. Each of the data IUCs has a different modulation order and forward error correction (FEC). The SNR and codeword ... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7835316 | Method for mobile network operational state indication A method to indicate a transitional operational state of a communication link is provided. The method includes indicating the operational state of the communication link is operable, transmitting data between a communication management unit and an endpoint via the c... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7821981 | Satellite switch communication over a network A method for interconnecting a satellite switch and a virtual switch for communication over a network includes transmitting a multicast packet containing a satellite identifier over the network and receiving a response multicast packet containing the satellite ident... | 10/26/2010 |
