Patents Assigned to Hughes Network Systems
  • Patent number: 12176994
    Abstract: Dynamic in-route reconfiguration in a satellite network includes receiving at least one of transmit power capability and demand requirements from one or more active satellite terminals of the satellite network, determining a resulting in-route configuration during operation of the satellite network based on the received at least one of transmit power capability and demand requirements, comparing the determined resulting in-route configuration to a current in-route configuration. When the determined resulting in-route configuration is different from the current in-route configuration, establishing the determined resulting in-route configuration as the current in-route configuration and storing the established current in-route configuration in a dynamic in-route reconfiguration manager, and transmitting the established current in-route configuration to the one or more active satellite terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventors: John Leonard Border, Murali Regunathan, Jayant Sonrexa, Robert James Torres
  • Patent number: 12166536
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for predicting the impact of various weather conditions on signal quality in a satellite communication system. A first model is generated for predicting RF signal degradation, and trained with link quality metrics from selected terminals over a first time interval. A second model is generated for predicting RF signal degradation resulting from weather conditions, and trained with both the link quality metrics from the selected terminals and weather conditions over a second predetermined time interval. Real time link quality metrics are analyzed using the trained first model and the trained second model in order to identify changes in current RF signal quality. At least one recommendation is subsequently generated to indicate a cause for changes in the current RF signal quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Shivaram Sitaram, Will Highfield, Rajeev Kubba, Hongyangyang Shi
  • Publication number: 20240388604
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing application-layer characterization is disclosed. Quick User Datagram Protocol (UDP) Internet Connection (QUIC) is an end-to-end encrypted, transport-layer protocol, with a goal to improve communication security and quality of experience (QoE) towards end-users. The systems and methods disclosed herein relate to estimating application-level traffic attributes without decrypting QUIC packets. Based on size, timing, and direction information available in the encrypted packet, the system analyzes associated network traffic to infer an identity of each request and response pair, including time, size, and request-response match, as well as multiplexing feature in each QUIC connection. In the case of request and response multiplexing, several requests will be gathered and matched as a group with their corresponding responses, to form a super request-response pair.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Applicant: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Qianqian ZHANG, Chi-Jiun SU
  • Patent number: 12149417
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for determining a terminal idle time. In some implementations, a server can obtain communication data from a plurality of devices in a communication network, wherein the communication data indicates levels of network traffic for the device over time. The server can generate an idle period forecasting model configured to predict occurrence of future communication idle periods in which communication activity is predicted to be below a threshold. The server can provide the idle period forecasting model to each of the plurality of devices such that the devices can respectively use the idle period forecasting model to locally predict future communication idle periods of the devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Tayyab Khan, Venkat Ganesan, Sajid Arastu
  • Patent number: 12143151
    Abstract: Devices, systems, methods, and non-transitory media facilitate image rejection for a radio frequency signal with a wideband carrier. Wideband signals from a device may be analyzed, the wideband signals corresponding to a wideband channel. Each wideband signal may correspond to a sinusoidal electrical signal with IQ amplitude and phase modulation. An in-phase component (I) of a wideband signal may be determined. A quadrature component (Q) of the wideband signal may be determined. Based on the determined I and Q, a wideband IQ imbalance may be determined. A scalar error based on the wideband IQ imbalance may be obtained. The scalar error may be mapped to a vector error plane. Orthogonal error vector points that are based on the mapping may be determined. The wideband IQ imbalance of the device may be compensated based on adjusting an IQ setting of the device with the orthogonal error vector points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Minheng Shan, Kumud Patel
  • Patent number: 12136936
    Abstract: Devices, systems and method for enabling radio communications between a plurality of users are disclosed herein. In an embodiment, a mobile tactical device includes a radio connection interface, a first frequency converter, a frequency filter, and a second frequency converter. The radio connection interface is configured to receive a first radio communication having a mobile frequency from a mobile radio. The first frequency converter is configured to convert the mobile frequency to an intermediate frequency. The frequency filter is configured to pass or reject the intermediate frequency. The second frequency converter is configured to convert the intermediate frequency to an assigned transmission frequency for transmission of the first communication when the intermediate frequency passes the at least one frequency filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Graham Avis, Bill Whitmarsh
  • Patent number: 12126069
    Abstract: An AESA (Active Electronically Scanned Array), including: a PCB (Printed Circuit Board) substrate having an obverse surface; TRMs (Transmit/Receive Modules) disposed on the obverse surface; thermal pedestals wherein each thermal pedestal includes a wall, having a wall height, including wall surfaces and one of the wall surfaces being a contact surface; and a TIM (Thermal Interface Material), having a TIM height, disposed between a respective contact surface of the thermal pedestals and the obverse surface. The thermal pedestals are discrete with respect to one another, the contact surfaces of the thermal pedestals are interspersed about the TRMs, the thermal pedestals do not contact the TRMs, the TIM is electrically and thermally conductive, and the wall height plus the TIM height is sufficient to suppress resonances of the TRMs below a frequency greater than the Tx and Rx frequency bands of the TRMs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Buckley, Tom Walter, Bingqian Lu, Lal Mohan Bhowmik, Varada Rajan Komanduri
  • Patent number: 12126457
    Abstract: An Active Power Edge device may include a power strip comprising electrical outlets; a MQ Telemetry Transport (MQTT) client to communicate with a broker and to receive a configuration from the broker; and a monitor to enable the electrical outlets per the configuration, to perform status checks and to report a result of the status checks to the broker via the MQTT client, wherein the configuration includes an outlet device and a status check definition, and the status checks are performed per the status check definition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Carl Malone, Ronald Paul Alder, Quinn Jensen, T. Kelly Bradford, Mike Balzotti, Rahul Rode, Ben Dorton, Kim Clark, John Hundley
  • Patent number: 12126430
    Abstract: A system and method for reducing usage of satellite channelizers including dividing a frequency spectrum into sub-bands; providing a satellite channelizer for each of the sub-bands, where each of the sub-bands may include channels; multiplexing service channels into the channels of one of the sub-bands, where the service channels convey data for a plurality of MSSs. A system and method for obtaining high throughput on a satellite network. A system and method for providing a Fair Access Policy (FAP) in a 4G system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Channasandra Ravishankar, James Jehong Jong, Gaguk Zakaria, Nassir Benammar
  • Patent number: 12124971
    Abstract: A method and system for service management of a complex network including: computing, at a computer, a weather impact score for geographic areas within a coverage area of a satellite; predicting, based on the weather impact score for each of the geographic areas, a degradation of at least one of the satellite links serving a respective geographic area; and sending a notification about the degradation. The method may include calculating, with a computer, a peak Quality of Service (QoS) for each of the satellite links; aggregating, for a duration, transmission errors to calculate an actual QoS for each of the satellite links; and displaying a drill-down dashboard comprising a color-code for each of the satellite links, wherein the color-code corresponds to a severity of a respective discrepancy between a respective peak QoS and a respective actual QoS of a respective satellite link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Rajeev Kubba, Shivaram Sitaram
  • Patent number: 12107742
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for using machine learning to detect and correct satellite terminal performance limitations. In some implementations, a system retrieves data indicating labels for clusters of network performance anomalies. The system generates a set of training data to train a machine learning model, the set of training data being generated by assigning the labels for the clusters to sets of performance indicators used to generate the clusters. The system trains a machine learning model to predict classifications for communication devices based on input of performance indicators for the communication devices. The system determines a classification for the communication device based on output that the trained machine learning model generates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Amit Arora, Kartik Seshadri, Sairaj Amberkar, Sonia Thakur, Namrata Walanj
  • Patent number: 12101708
    Abstract: A system and method for increasing bandwidth utilization of an aggregated path by a mobile terminal, the method including: establishing the aggregated path of communication with the mobile terminal, where the aggregated path includes a first path including a High Throughput Satellite (HTS) path having a first available capacity and a second path including a wireless path having a second available capacity; tracking the first and second available capacities; and updating, upon a movement of the mobile terminal, the first available capacity based on a distance of the mobile terminal from a satellite beam center of a current satellite beam; and selecting, to communicate a packet, one of the first and seconds path based on the first and the second available capacities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventor: Douglas Dillon
  • Patent number: 12101169
    Abstract: A computer comprises a processor and a memory. The memory stores instructions executable by the processor to input a frequency spectrum distribution to a machine learning program to obtain carrier data as output from the machine learning program satellite communication. The machine learning program is trained with a plurality of frequency spectrum distributions of a wireless satellite communication signal and metadata specifying one or more satellite communication carriers for respective ones of the frequency spectrum distributions, wherein the metadata for each satellite communication carrier includes a respective center frequency and a respective symbol rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Zengquan Fan, Kish Jadhav, David Whitefield
  • Patent number: 12095536
    Abstract: A system and method for providing multi-input multi-output (MIMO) feeder links for a multibeam satellite system. The method includes configuring a X×Y MIMO antenna system using X-antennae having dominant line-of-sight (LoS) of Y-antennae; transmitting, simultaneously, a Tx signal as X Tx signals on a MIMO channel with the X-antennae; receiving the X Tx signals on the MIMO channel with the Y-antennae as Y Rx signals, wherein each of the Y-antennae generate one of the Y Rx signals; and ground-interference processing the X Tx signals or the Y Rx signals to recover the Tx signal; satellite-interference processing the X Tx signals or the Y Rx signals to recover the Tx signal. In the method, the ground interference processing includes countermeasures as either pre-interference processing when the X-antennae are disposed on a ground or post-interference processing when the X-antennae are disposed in a Geosynchronous orbit satellite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventor: Bassel F. Beidas
  • Patent number: 12088009
    Abstract: A higher order Floquet-mode structure (HOFS) integrated meander line polarizer and radome including: a substrate including layers having a dielectric constant (dk) of 2.9; a HOFS including metal layers disposed in a first subset of the layers; and meander lines, to provide a phase shift and match, disposed in a second subset of the layers, wherein the substrate includes a low-cost material and the metal layers include a feature trace and gap widths of about 10 mils or greater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Buckley, Varada Rajan Komanduri
  • Patent number: 12088404
    Abstract: A burst mode time division multiple access (TDMA) data processing system can determine burst time plans (BTPs). The burst mode TDMA data processing system can receive burst mode time division multiple access (TDMA) data. The burst mode TDMA data can be distributed among processors based on the BTPs. The distributed burst mode TDMA data can be demodulated and decoded the using the processors and the demodulated and decoded burst mode TDMA data can be output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Nimesh Ambeskar, Hanhui Zhang, Ashritha Mohan Ram, Jingyuan Liang, Akash Gaikwad
  • Patent number: 12080936
    Abstract: An AESA (Active Electronically Scanned Array), including: a PCB (Printed Circuit Board) substrate having an obverse surface; TRMs (Transmit/Receive Modules) disposed on the obverse surface; thermal pedestals wherein each thermal pedestal includes a wall, having a wall height, including wall surfaces and one of the wall surfaces being a contact surface; and a TIM (Thermal Interface Material), having a TIM height, disposed between a respective contact surface of the thermal pedestals and the obverse surface. A plurality of the thermal pedestals are physically interconnected, the TIM is electrically and thermally conductive, and the wall height plus the TIM height is sufficient to suppress resonances of the TRMs below a frequency greater than a Tx and Rx frequency band of the TRMs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Buckley, Tom Walter, Lal Mohan Bhowmik, Varada Rajan Komanduri
  • Patent number: 12063712
    Abstract: A system and method for identifying devices with WiFi connection incompatibility are described. Data related to connectivity for at least one customer premise equipment (CPE) connected to each terminal in a satellite network is collected in order to generate a set of metrics associated with each of the at least CPE using the collected data. A first set of results indicative of network incompatibility is determined for each of the CPEs. Next, a second set of results indicative of network incompatibility is determined for each CPE using at least one machine learning algorithm. Information indicative of network incompatibility is subsequently generated for each CPE based on the first set of results and the second set of results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Shivaram Sitaram, Rajeev Kubba, Ying Wang, Junyu Gong
  • Patent number: 12057967
    Abstract: Systems and methods for estimating the kind of traffic a VPN is carrying and determining which WAN connection to use for VPN network traffic to reduce usage costs while maintaining responsiveness in a VPN router or gateway. A VPN classifier examines VPN packets and estimates the type of traffic they are carrying and selects a policy for upstream or downstream traffic to determine which tunnel or tunnels to send network traffic. Further, policies may be applied to VPN packets as a function of usage knob.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventor: Douglas Merrill Dillon
  • Publication number: 20240259910
    Abstract: Systems and methods for integrating multi-path communication networks to provide In-Flight Connectivity (IFC) for users, by augmenting data streams from multi-path satellite networks are disclosed. The system includes IFC system and IAT to provide wireless network connectivity to user devices. The system includes SD-WAN router communicatively coupled to IFC system and IAT. The SD-WAN router receives request for accessing WAN from user devices, and determines parameters associated with data packets based on received request. The SD-WAN router classifies data packets into traffic types based on parameters. Furthermore, SD-WAN router prioritizes data packets based on traffic types and available network capacity for upstream transmission of data packets across IFC system and IAT. Additionally, SD-WAN router determines appropriate WAN transport path associated with SD-WAN tunnel for upstream transmission based on traffic types and performance parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2024
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Douglas Merrill DILLON, Ryan Reza RASOULIAN