Patents by Inventor Stanley Edward Kay
Stanley Edward Kay has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11329875Abstract: A method of switching from a first gateway within a plurality of first gateways to a second gateway in a network includes precaching configuration information on the second gateway, that is within the first gateways, prior to switch-over to the second gateway. The first gateway from which the second gateway is being switched is identified. The second gateway is configured in accordance with the configuration of the first gateway based on the precached configuration information prior to the switch-over to the second gateway. Data traffic from data applications using the network is replicated and sent to the first gateway and the second gateway. Bandwidths allocated to terminals in the network are frozen in association with the switch-over to the second gateway. The bandwidths allocated to the terminals in the network are unfrozen based at least in part on an indication of completion of the switch-over to the second gateway.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2021Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: HUGHES NETWORK SYSTEMS, LLCInventors: David Whitefield, Robert James Torres, John Leonard Border, David Alan Roos, Stanley Edward Kay
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Patent number: 11153786Abstract: Disclosed methods include a resource manager in a multiple node network receiving a demand for additional bandwidth, from a terminal, and the resource manager having updated information on the state of the mobile node network and, using that the state information, performing test allocation of the requested bandwidth to the requesting terminal. Disclosed methods include determining whether previous commitments of service can be met with the test allocation in place. Associated with a positive result, an allocation is sent to the terminal.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2019Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC.Inventors: Robert James Torres, Stanley Edward Kay, George Choquette
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Publication number: 20210168033Abstract: A method of switching from a first gateway within a plurality of first gateways to a second gateway in a network includes precaching configuration information on the second gateway, that is within the first gateways, prior to switch-over to the second gateway. The first gateway from which the second gateway is being switched is identified. The second gateway is configured in accordance with the configuration of the first gateway based on the precached configuration information prior to the switch-over to the second gateway. Data traffic from data applications using the network is replicated and sent to the first gateway and the second gateway. Bandwidths allocated to terminals in the network are frozen in association with the switch-over to the second gateway. The bandwidths allocated to the terminals in the network are unfrozen based at least in part on an indication of completion of the switch-over to the second gateway.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2021Publication date: June 3, 2021Applicant: HUGHES NETWORK SYSTEMS, LLCInventors: David WHITEFIELD, Robert James TORRES, John Leonard BORDER, David Alan ROOS, Stanley Edward KAY
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Patent number: 11012157Abstract: Techniques for data transmission include a geostationary earth orbiting satellite that includes a first optical communication system configured to receive forward-direction user data via a forward optical link between the satellite and a stratospheric high-altitude communication device, and a first radio frequency (RF) communication system configured to transmit, via a plurality of RF spot beams, the forward-direction user data. The stratospheric high-altitude communication device includes a second RF communication system configured to receive the forward-direction user data via a plurality of concurrent forward RF feeder links, and a second optical communication system configured to transmit to the satellite, via the forward optical link, the forward-direction user data received via the plurality of forward RF feeder links.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2020Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLCInventors: Stanley Edward Kay, Neal David Becker, Lin-Nan Lee
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Patent number: 10938652Abstract: A method of switching from a first gateway within a plurality of first gateways to a second gateway in a network includes precaching configuration information on the second gateway, that is within the first gateways, prior to switch-over to the second gateway. The first gateway from which the second gateway is being switched is identified. The second gateway is configured in accordance with the configuration of the first gateway based on the precached configuration information prior to the switch-over to the second gateway. Data traffic from data applications using the network is replicated and sent to the first gateway and the second gateway. Bandwidths allocated to terminals in the network are frozen in association with the switch-over to the second gateway. The bandwidths allocated to the terminals in the network are unfrozen based at least in part on an indication of completion of the switch-over to the second gateway.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2019Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLCInventors: David Whitefield, Robert James Torres, John Leonard Border, David Alan Roos, Stanley Edward Kay
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Publication number: 20210058293Abstract: A method of switching from a first gateway within a plurality of first gateways to a second gateway in a network includes precaching configuration information on the second gateway, that is within the first gateways, prior to switch-over to the second gateway. The first gateway from which the second gateway is being switched is identified. The second gateway is configured in accordance with the configuration of the first gateway based on the precached configuration information prior to the switch-over to the second gateway. Data traffic from data applications using the network is replicated and sent to the first gateway and the second gateway. Bandwidths allocated to terminals in the network are frozen in association with the switch-over to the second gateway. The bandwidths allocated to the terminals in the network are unfrozen based at least in part on an indication of completion of the switch-over to the second gateway.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2019Publication date: February 25, 2021Applicant: Hughes Network Systems, LLCInventors: David WHITEFIELD, Robert James TORRES, John Leonard BORDER, David Alan ROOS, Stanley Edward KAY
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Patent number: 10834612Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed, and one includes receiving a configuration specification data, including a cell floorplan data identifying a plurality of rectangular cells, and indicating a cell width and a cell length of each, in combination with determining, based at least in part on the configuration specification data, a spot beam pattern that provides a plurality of rectangular cell coverage regions, having the cell length and width.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2020Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLCInventors: Stanley Edward Kay, Liping Chen, Uday Ramachandra Rao Bhaskar
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Publication number: 20200322056Abstract: Techniques for data transmission include a geostationary earth orbiting satellite that includes a first optical communication system configured to receive forward-direction user data via a forward optical link between the satellite and a stratospheric high-altitude communication device, and a first radio frequency (RF) communication system configured to transmit, via a plurality of RF spot beams, the forward-direction user data. The stratospheric high-altitude communication device includes a second RF communication system configured to receive the forward-direction user data via a plurality of concurrent forward RF feeder links, and a second optical communication system configured to transmit to the satellite, via the forward optical link, the forward-direction user data received via the plurality of forward RF feeder links.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2020Publication date: October 8, 2020Applicant: Hughes Network Systems, LLCInventors: Stanley Edward Kay, Neal David Becker, Lin-Nan Lee
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Patent number: 10727949Abstract: Techniques for data transmission including receiving, at a geostationary earth orbiting satellite, forward-direction user data via a forward optical link; transmitting, by the geostationary earth orbiting satellite via multiple radio frequency (RF) spot beams, the forward-direction user data received via the forward optical link; receiving, at a stratospheric high-altitude communication device, forward-direction user data via multiple concurrent forward RF feeder links; transmitting, by the stratospheric high-altitude communication device via the forward optical link, the forward-direction user data received via the forward RF feeder links; transmitting, by each of multiple ground-based feeder RF terminals at a same RF feeder site, a respective one of the forward RF feeder links. At least 95% of forward feeder data throughput for all of the forward RF service link transmissions by the satellite is carried via the forward optical link and the forward RF feeder links.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2018Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC.Inventors: Stanley Edward Kay, Neal David Becker, Lin-Nan Lee
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Publication number: 20200187019Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed, and one includes receiving a configuration specification data, including a cell floorplan data identifying a plurality of rectangular cells, and indicating a cell width and a cell length of each, in combination with determining, based at least in part on the configuration specification data, a spot beam pattern that provides a plurality of rectangular cell coverage regions, having the cell length and width.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2020Publication date: June 11, 2020Applicant: Hughes Network Systems, LLCInventors: Stanley Edward Kay, Liping Chen, Uday Ramachandra Rao Bhaskar
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Patent number: 10651928Abstract: Systems and method are disclosed and among these is a method for mitigation of interference local to remote terminals, and it can include detecting reception of a packet having one of the remote terminals as a destination terminal and, in response, selecting a sub-carrier among the sub-carriers that are not identified as receiving local interference at the destination terminal, and loading, into a queue for the selected sub-carrier, a coded data from which a content of the packet can be derived, and transmitting the queued coded data on the selected sub-carrier. Among disclosed features is a receiving of an interference report that carries an information indicative of a new local interference and, in response, updating the data identifying sub-carriers having local interference at the destination terminal.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2017Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLCInventors: Stanley Edward Kay, Liping Chen
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Publication number: 20200137633Abstract: Disclosed methods include a resource manager in a multiple node network receiving a demand for additional bandwidth, from a terminal, and the resource manager having updated information on the state of the mobile node network and, using that the state information, performing test allocation of the requested bandwidth to the requesting terminal. Disclosed methods include determining whether previous commitments of service can be met with the test allocation in place. Associated with a positive result, an allocation is sent to the terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2019Publication date: April 30, 2020Applicant: Hughes Network Systems, LLCInventors: Robert James Torres, Stanley Edward Kay, George Choquette
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Publication number: 20200119811Abstract: Techniques for data transmission including receiving, at a geostationary earth orbiting satellite, forward-direction user data via a forward optical link; transmitting, by the geostationary earth orbiting satellite via multiple radio frequency (RF) spot beams, the forward-direction user data received via the forward optical link; receiving, at a stratospheric high-altitude communication device, forward-direction user data via multiple concurrent forward RF feeder links; transmitting, by the stratospheric high-altitude communication device via the forward optical link, the forward-direction user data received via the forward RF feeder links; transmitting, by each of multiple ground-based feeder RF terminals at a same RF feeder site, a respective one of the forward RF feeder links. At least 95% of forward feeder data throughput for all of the forward RF service link transmissions by the satellite is carried via the forward optical link and the forward RF feeder links.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2018Publication date: April 16, 2020Applicant: Hughes Network Systems, LLCInventors: Stanley Edward Kay, Neal David Becker, Lin-Nan Lee
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Patent number: 10588029Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed, and one includes receiving a configuration specification data, including a cell floorplan data identifying a plurality of rectangular cells, and indicating a cell width and a cell length of each, in combination with determining, based at least in part on the configuration specification data, a spot beam pattern that provides a plurality of rectangular cell coverage regions, having the cell length and width.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2018Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignee: Hughes Networks Systems, LLC.Inventors: Stanley Edward Kay, Liping Chen, Uday Ramachandra Rao Bhaskar
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Patent number: 10560874Abstract: Disclosed methods include a resource manager in a multiple node network receiving a demand for additional bandwidth, from a terminal, and the resource manager having updated information on the state of the mobile node network and, using that the state information, performing test allocation of the requested bandwidth to the requesting terminal. Disclosed methods include determining whether previous commitments of service can be met with the test allocation in place. Associated with a positive result, an allocation is sent to the terminal.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2017Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignee: Hughes Network Systems LLCInventors: Robert James Torres, Stanley Edward Kay, George Choquette
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Patent number: 10536318Abstract: Modulation and coding for a high altitude platform is disclosed. An example method includes determining a first modulation scheme and a first coding scheme that is spectrally efficient for a feeder link communicatively coupled to a gateway antenna and determining a second modulation scheme and second coding scheme that is robust for user links communicatively coupled to respective user antennas. Each user antenna is configured to communicate with a specified cell within a specified area. The example method also includes provisioning the telecommunications apparatus with the first modulation scheme, the first coding scheme, the second modulation scheme, and the second coding scheme.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2018Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: Hughes Network Systems LLCInventors: Anthony Robert Noerpel, Stanley Edward Kay
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Publication number: 20190190593Abstract: Systems and method are disclosed and among these is a method for mitigation of interference local to remote terminals, and it can include detecting reception of a packet having one of the remote terminals as a destination terminal and, in response, selecting a sub-carrier among the sub-carriers that are not identified as receiving local interference at the destination terminal, and loading, into a queue for the selected sub-carrier, a coded data from which a content of the packet can be derived, and transmitting the queued coded data on the selected sub-carrier. Among disclosed features is a receiving of an interference report that carries an information indicative of a new local interference and, in response, updating the data identifying sub-carriers having local interference at the destination terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2017Publication date: June 20, 2019Applicant: Hughes Network Systems, LLCInventors: Stanley Edward Kay, Liping Chen
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Publication number: 20180234284Abstract: Modulation and coding for a high altitude platform is disclosed. An example method includes determining a first modulation scheme and a first coding scheme that is spectrally efficient for a feeder link communicatively coupled to a gateway antenna and determining a second modulation scheme and second coding scheme that is robust for user links communicatively coupled to respective user antennas. Each user antenna is configured to communicate with a specified cell within a specified area. The example method also includes provisioning the telecommunications apparatus with the first modulation scheme, the first coding scheme, the second modulation scheme, and the second coding scheme.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2018Publication date: August 16, 2018Inventors: Anthony Robert Noerpel, Stanley Edward Kay
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Patent number: 9991944Abstract: A description of a high altitude platform with multibeam coverage for aero-based terminals is provided herein. An example apparatus includes a plurality of user link antennas each configured to provide communication coverage among a plurality of aero-based terminals within a specified volume (or area) of the sky, each antenna being configured to communicate with a specified cell within the specified volume. The apparatus also includes a gateway link antenna configured to provide communication coverage to a ground-based gateway terminal. The user link antennas are configured to have differently sized apertures to maintain a similar spectral density among the cells within the specified coverage area. Such a configuration of user link antennas provides consistent Quality of Service and bandwidth for aero-based terminals (such as private and commercial aircraft) operating within the specified coverage area.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2015Date of Patent: June 5, 2018Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLCInventors: Anthony Robert Noerpel, Stanley Edward Kay
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Patent number: 9942082Abstract: Modulation and coding for a high altitude platform is disclosed. An example apparatus includes a gateway antenna configured to communicate with a ground-based gateway station and user antennas configured to provide communication coverage among a plurality of terminals within a specified area on the ground or in the air. Each user antenna is configured to communicate with a cell within the specified area. The example apparatus also includes a processor configured to demodulate and decode a first modulation scheme and a first coding scheme used for a feeder link provided by the gateway antenna, and apply at least a second modulation scheme and a second coding scheme for user links provided in spot beams by the user antennas. The first modulation scheme and the first coding scheme are configured to be relatively more spectrally efficient compared to the second modulation scheme and the second coding scheme for the user links.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2015Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLCInventors: Anthony Robert Noerpel, Stanley Edward Kay