Abstract: The Inmarsat Capacity Expansion invention, in an embodiment to retrofit a standard Inmarsat-B mobile earth station (MES), combines standard MES equipment and functionality with an assembly containing a diplexer/switch and a digital signal processor, a second SCPC modem that has configurable modulation and error correction capabilities, control signals and paths, and related management and control software and hardware to enable the transmission and reception of standard service types and higher data rate services.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 19, 2001
Date of Patent:
June 27, 2006
Assignee:
Innovative Communications Technologies, Inc.
Inventors:
Mohammed Gomma Abutaleb, Jeffrey Richard Jacobson, Danny Edward McConnell, James C. Crichton, Glenn Stephenson, III
Abstract: A system is provided for controlling a network of communication terminals with a a management component and an implementation component, the implementation component in communication with the management component to receive at least one transmission plan, the transmission plan containing a scheduled implementation time, the implementation component receiving-the transmission plan, decoding an implementation time for the transmission plan and outputting command to network component at the implementation time to implement the transmission plan.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 18, 1999
Date of Patent:
July 30, 2002
Assignee:
Innovative Communications Technologies, Inc.
Inventors:
Jeffrey R. Jacobson, Ronald Nau, Scott Swanson, Moe G. Abutaleb, David J. Megel, James C. Crichton
Abstract: A system for controlling a network of communication terminals with a management component and an implementation component, the implementation component in communication with the management component to receive at least one transmission plan, the transmission plan containing a scheduled implementation time, the implementation component receiving the transmission plan, decoding an implementation time for the transmission plan and outputting command to network component at the implementation time to implement the transmission plan.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 22, 1999
Date of Patent:
April 30, 2002
Assignee:
Innovative Communications Technologies, Inc.
Inventors:
Jeffrey R. Jacobson, Ronald Nau, Scott Swanson, Moe G. Abutaleb, David J. Megel, James C. Crichton