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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8116762 | Method and system for providing aeronautical communication services Aeronautical communication services is disclosed. For example, an aeronautical vehicle for use in a first aeronautical communication system to allow communication to and from a land-based station is disclosed, wherein the land-based station transmits communications ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8103270 | Fixed cell communication system with reduced interference A communication system has a high altitude communication device that has an antenna for directing beams to a fixed cell pattern with a polarity of cells. A specific pattern of cells having the same communication resource is provided. Cells having the same resource m... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8032134 | Beamforming with global positioning and orientation systems A wireless communication system for transmitting signals having a wireless positioning system being responsive to incoming signals for processing the same to generate coordinate information for determining the position of said wireless communication system, in accor... | 10/04/2011 |
| 7890098 | Staggered sectorization for terrestrial reuse of satellite frequencies A satellite radiotelephone system can include a space-based component and a plurality of ancillary terrestrial components. The space-based component is configured to provide wireless radiotelephone communications over a satellite radiotelephone frequency band. The p... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7783288 | Mobile network base station controller comprising a central gateway and a physically separate remote gateway which communicate via a remote link A remote mobile network part (2, 11, 12) may be on an aircraft, a ship, or in a geographically remote location. It comprises a gateway (6) which communicates with a central gateway (9) via a satellite link. The two gateways (6, 9) togethe... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7706787 | Multi-beam communication system and method A method of flexibly allocating capacity in a satellite coverage area, comprising establishing a frequency reuse pattern of at least two interleaved sets of cells, assigning a polarization to each set of cells, such that adjacent sets of cells alternate in orthogona... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7636567 | Coordinated satellite-terrestrial frequency reuse A system and method of operation for efficiently reusing and/or sharing at least a portion of the frequency spectrum between a first satellite spot beam and a second satellite spot beam, and/or an underlay terrestrial network associated with a second satellite spot ... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7606567 | Channel allocation for burst transmission to a diversity of satellites A method for allocating transmission channels to devices configured to communicate short data packets to a diversity of non geostationary satellites is disclosed hereby. The method suggests a dynamic cellular partitioning of the earth surface, based on the smallest ... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7593726 | Coordinated satellite-terrestrial frequency reuse A system and method of operation for efficiently reusing and/or sharing at least a portion of the frequency spectrum between a first satellite spot beam and a second satellite spot beam, and/or an underlay terrestrial network associated with a second satellite spot ... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7426386 | Beam laydown for hopped satellite downlink with adaptable duty cycle A power gated variable hop cycle beam laydown (700) manifests itself as first cells (C, D) supported by a first hop cycle, second cells (G, H) supported by a second hop cycle, and transition cells (E, F) supported by a transition hop cycle. The transition hop... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7423987 | Feeder link configurations to support layered modulation for digital signals Systems and methods are disclosed for feeder link configurations to layered modulation. One feeder link system employs feeder link spot beam to antennas in distinct coverage areas to enable frequency reuse. Another system employs narrow beam width feeder link antenn... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7370566 | Complimentary retrograde/prograde satellite constellation A method for sensing and monitoring ICBM threats using a constellation of earth orbiting satellites. The method includes arranging a first and a second plurality of threat sensing satellites in earth orbit. The first plurality is selected to have a first prograde or... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369847 | Fixed cell communication system with reduced interference A communication system has a high altitude communication device that has an antenna for directing beams to a fixed cell pattern with a polarity of cells. A specific pattern of cells having the same communication resource is provided. Preferably, cells having the sam... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369809 | System and method for continuous broadcast service from non-geostationary orbits A method, apparatus for providing at least near continuous broadcast services to one or more terrestrial receiver stations is disclosed. The system comprises a plurality of satellites, each satellite in an inclined, elliptical geosynchronous orbit, each satellite pr... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366463 | Military UHF and commercial Geo-mobile system combination for radio signal relay A radio signal relay device such as satellite is used to cover several relatively small geographical regions with relatively narrow beams as well as a relatively large geographical region with a single beam. This relatively wide beam permits legacy equipment to be u... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7365675 | Measuring wind vectors remotely using airborne radar Airborne meteorological radars and related networks and models. In one embodiment a network for creating a meteorological model includes a mobile sensing node and a modeling node. The sensing node includes a meteorological RADAR that senses the wind velocity. Data f... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7365674 | Airborne weather profiler network Apparatus and methods for remotely sensing meteorological conditions and for building models from the sensed conditions. More particularly, networks and systems are provided for gathering remotely sensed profiles of the meteorological conditions and for building the... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7327698 | Method and system for providing satellite communications using on-orbit payload configuration and reconfiguration A system for providing high frequency data communications in a satellite-based communications network includes a plurality of communications satellites each having uplink and downlink antennas capable of receiving and transmitting a plurality of signals. Each of sai... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324827 | Method and system for harmonizing an operation area for a mobile device in a cellular radio network The invention relates to a method and a system for harmonising an operational area for a mobile device on a cell-by-cell-basis in a cellular radio network, like a GSM network, wherein, in idle mode, the mobile device compares field strength levels of different base ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7317916 | Stratospheric-based communication system for mobile users using additional phased array elements for interference rejection A communication system has a stratospheric platform with a payload controller and a phased array antenna having a plurality of main array elements for generating a plurality of communication beams and a plurality of auxiliary elements for canceling interference betw... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7309926 | Solar-powered pumping device A solar-powered pumping device comprising: a solar power converter for generating power from sunlight; a pump driven by power from said solar power converter; an actuator for controlling the orient... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7280613 | Method to inject hierarchical data onto single carrier stream The present invention involves a transmitter for transmitting two levels of data in a hierarchical transmission system. The transmitter has encoders, a modulator, an adjuster, and an up converter. The first encoder has a first output and capable of providing digital... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7277394 | Non interfering group based wireless network protocols A wireless network (100) and method (200) for assigning a set of channels to a set of wireless devices (102-126) in the network where there are less channels than devices such that wireless devices are grouped in channel groups such that ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7274329 | Method and apparatus for reducing quantization-induced beam errors by selecting quantized coefficients based on predicted beam quality A method and apparatus for correcting a beam error is disclosed. One embodiment of the method comprises the steps of selecting beamweight coefficients based on the satellite orbital data, evaluating an effect of quantization of the beamweight coefficients on the bea... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7268726 | Method and apparatus for correction of quantization-induced beacon beam errors A method of correcting for beacon pointing errors is disclosed. A desired beacon value and a predicted measured beacon value are computed and used to generate the beacon correction. An antenna pattern calculator can be used to compute the predicted measured beacon v... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7260391 | Satellite mobile telephone cell departure prediction A mobile station (4) in a satellite mobile telephone system predicts when it will move into another cell on the basis of one set of broadcast information thereby reducing the overall processing burden. The mobile station (4) can predict with a useful d... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7254365 | Antenna directivity estimator for a reconfigurable antenna A method and apparatus for redistributing power radiated by an antenna comprised of a plurality of antenna elements. An antenna directivity estimator function is performed to screen out inappropriate antenna directivity profiles from a plurality of antenna directivi... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7242904 | Dual-band multiple beam antenna system for communication satellites A dual-band multiple beam antenna system for a communications satellite sharing a set of reflector antennas for the transmit and receive frequencies. One set of reflectors is common to both the downlink and uplink frequencies. The feed horns are diplexed and exhibit... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7227850 | Cellular radio communication system with frequency reuse Different frequency reuse values are associated with different channels, e.g., different types of channels in a cellular communications system. For a high speed downlink shared type of channel, the frequency reuse may be greater than one in order to achieve higher d... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7224320 | Small wave-guide radiators for closely spaced feeds on multi-beam antennas A relatively low cost, easy to install and aesthetically pleasing digital video broadcast from satellite (DVBS) elliptical horn antenna designed to receive satellite television broadcast signals with circular polarity. This type antenna may be implemented as a multi... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7218931 | Satellite radiotelephone systems providing staggered sectorization for terrestrial reuse of satellite frequencies and related methods and radiotelephone systems A satellite radiotelephone system can include a space-based component and a plurality of ancillary terrestrial components. The space-based component is configured to provide wireless radiotelephone communications over a satellite radiotelephone frequency band. The p... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7215954 | Resource allocation method for multi-platform communication system A mobile wireless communications system including a plurality of individual transponding nodes of various types, all in communication with a central processing hub. A local user signal is processed by the central processing hub and radiated through multiple paths to... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7212789 | Tunable duplexer The method and apparatus herein identifies tunable duplexer in a communication system. The tunable duplexer includes a tunable receiver filter, a tunable transmitter filter, a variable receiver phase shifter, and variable transmitter phase shifter. Each filter and p... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7200359 | Dual transmission emergency communication system A telematic emergency communication system is provided. The system includes a user terminal that generates emergency communication signals within an emergency signal band. A spacecraft network has a first emergency mode receiver and attempts to receive the emergency... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7194432 | Billing process and system in a telecommunication network A billing method and billing system to determine usage fees which are charged to the user of a digital telecommunications network, whereby a usage fee charged for a connection is determined prior to establishing this connection from statistical characteristics of pr... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7194270 | Dynamic beam width selection for non-uniform density multiple access cells A communications system includes an antenna that produces a series of beams which divide a service region into a plurality of contiguous cells, and dynamically modifies cell boundaries so that the system's allocated communication spectrum is efficiently utilized. | 03/20/2007 |
| 7188174 | Admission control for applications in resource utility environments A system and method to provide admission control of resources for applications in resource utility environments. Admission control is used to efficiently allocate access to resources with a certain level of assurance based on statistical behavior of resource demands... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7184761 | Satellite communications system A communication system has a plurality of ground stations for communicating communication signal to a plurality of satellites located in an inclined elliptical sub-geosynchronous orbit with respect to the earth. The plurality of satellites operate in a service area ... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7181161 | Multi-band/multi-mode satellite radiotelephone communications systems and methods Satellite radiotelephone systems and communications methods include a space-based component that is configured to communicate with radiotelephones in a satellite footprint that is divided into satellite cells. The space-based component is configured to communicate w... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7181206 | Broadband communication platform and methods of network operation A subscriber platform for broadband communication, according to various aspects of the present invention, includes an antenna, a plurality of transceivers, and a processor. The antenna supports communication via a plurality of directional beams. The plurality of fre... | 02/20/2007 |
