Space Satellite Patents (Class 455/12.1)
  • Patent number: 11927923
    Abstract: A management apparatus in a time synchronization system includes a time variation information receiving unit configured to acquire time variation information and position information of a time synchronization apparatus, a position information classifying unit configured to classify time synchronization apparatuses into predetermined categories based on the acquired position information, a time variation analysis configured to determine majority based on whether patterns of time variation of the time synchronization apparatuses belonging to an identical category are identical to each other, and to analyze the time variation based on the determined results, and a filtering and delivery unit configured to output an instruction to block the time information received from the positioning satellite, to the time synchronization apparatus having abnormal time variation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Takaaki Hisashima, Hiroki Sakuma, Kaoru Arai, Ryuta Sugiyama, Shunichi Tsuboi, Osamu Kurokawa, Kazuyuki Matsumura
  • Patent number: 11924071
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media may be operable to facilitate client device band steering based upon deep packet inspection information. An access point may be configured to steer one or more client devices from a low frequency band to a high frequency band, and vice versa, based on the status of the low frequency band and/or high frequency band and the client devices associated with the bands. The access point may perform a deep packet inspection of data packet traffic associated with each associated client device, and may classify each client device as either a device associated with a media session or a device that is not associated with a media session based upon information retrieved from the deep packet inspection. The access point may choose one or more client devices to disassociate from a frequency band based upon the media session classification of the client devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: ARRIS ENTERPRISES LLC
    Inventors: Jay Strater, Subha Rajasekar
  • Patent number: 11916652
    Abstract: There is provided a satellite network for data communication, the network comprising a plurality of satellites arranged in medium Earth orbit (MEO) in a plurality of orbital planes such that a plurality of satellites are provided in each orbital plane, each satellite being operable to communicate with at least one terrestrial user terminal and comprising at least one communications antenna operable to generate a spot beam on a predetermined selected terrestrial region to enable said one or more terrestrial user terminals to receive and/or send data via the spot beam. The plurality of satellites is arranged such that the spot beams of at least two satellites are operable to cover the same terrestrial region at any one time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: METHERA GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS LIMITED
    Inventor: David Robson
  • Patent number: 11916650
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a satellite communications system comprising a satellite with a spatial digital modulator for transmitting an incoming bit stream in multiple beams, wherein the spatial digital modulator is configured to generate transmit symbols by dividing the incoming bit stream into symbols of a symbol alphabet and to allocate each transmit symbol to a specific beam. The invention further relates to a method for transmitting a bit stream by such a satellite communications system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: NEOSAT GMBH
    Inventors: Andreas Knopp, Christian Hofmann, Robert Schwarz, Stephan Winter, Matthias Schraml
  • Patent number: 11916610
    Abstract: An interference evaluation method for evaluating, over an area, radio-wave interference that occurs between a first radio station and a second radio station includes: a distinguishing step of acquiring information indicating topographic cross-sections of respective azimuths centered about the first radio station, and distinguishing the topographic cross-section into a segment in which there is visibility from the position of the first radio station and a segment in which there is no visibility from the position of the first radio station; and a specification step of specifying a position at which a desired interference amount is reached based on a distance between the first radio station and the second radio station in a segment distinguished as having visibility from the position of the first radio station, and specifying a position at which the desired interference amount is reached by evaluating the radio-wave interference for each square of an evaluation target region segmented into squares in a segment d
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideyuki Tsuboi, Hideki Toshinaga, Kazuto Goto, Yushi Shirato, Naoki Kita
  • Patent number: 11917571
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present application are a locating method for an uplink time difference of arrival, and an apparatus thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ren Da, Fang-Chen Cheng, Hui Li, Haiyang Quan, Bin Ren, Xueyuan Gao, Qiubin Gao
  • Patent number: 11909507
    Abstract: A method and system for using low earth orbit satellites to overcome latency is presented. In one embodiment, the method may include establishing a data session using a first channel having a first characteristic different than a second characteristic of a second channel, wherein the first channel is a Low Earth Orit (LEO) channel and wherein the second channel is a Geosynchronous Equatorial Orbit (GEO) channel; determining a type of traffic involved in the data session; determining whether the second channel should be used for the data session; when the second channel should be used for the data session, then switching the data session from the first channel to the second channel; and periodically monitoring the data session to determine whether the second channel should continue to be used for the data session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Parallel Wireless, Inc.
    Inventors: David Cooke, Rajesh Kumar Mishra
  • Patent number: 11895616
    Abstract: According to various embodiments, an electronic device comprises: a housing; a touchscreen display viewed through a part of the housing; at least one communication module located inside the housing; a processor located inside the housing and operationally connected to the display and the at least one communication module; and a memory located inside the housing and operationally connected to the processor, wherein the memory is provided to store a location measurement map, and can store instructions allowing, when executed, the processor to check the location of the electronic device by using the communication module, determine a block corresponding to the location of the electronic device on the location measurement map on the basis of at least a portion of the checked location of the electronic device, determine the location measurement method on the basis of at least a portion of priority information about a position source for the determined block and position source information about the electronic devic
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Inventors: Sungjung Joo, Jongho Kim, Kyonggon Choi, Yunwoo Lee, Seongmin Je
  • Patent number: 11888214
    Abstract: A data communications apparatus is disclosed for providing a data communications network. The apparatus includes a portable carrying case. A power supply is securable inside the case. A router device is securable inside the case, the router device including at least one cellular gateway for wide area network communication and configured to enable at least one wireless network for local area network communication. An antenna array is in electrical communication with the router device, the antenna array including at least a first pair of cellular antennas, at least two wireless networking antennas, and a satellite antenna. The first pair of cellular antennas are configured to support multiple input multiple output applications for the at least one cellular gateway, and the at least two wireless networking antennas are configured to support multiple input multiple output applications for the at least one wireless network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Plum Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventor: Dawson Lee Williams
  • Patent number: 11889459
    Abstract: The invention relates to methods and systems for phase-based determination of a distance and/or a frequency offset between a first node and a second node in a wireless network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignees: KONINKLIJKE KPN N.V., TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT
    Inventors: Tarik Kazaz, Mario Alberto Coutino Minguez, Gerardus Johannes Maria Janssen, Geert Jozef Therese Leus, Alle Jan Van der Veen
  • Patent number: 11878817
    Abstract: A satellite constellation forming system forms a satellite constellation (20) having a plurality of orbital planes (21) in each of which a plurality of satellites fly at the same orbital altitude. A satellite constellation forming unit forms the satellite constellation (20) in which orbital altitudes of the orbital planes (21) are mutually different. Furthermore, in the satellite constellation (20), relative altitude differences between adjacent orbital planes in the plurality of orbital planes are sequentially arranged to be sinusoidal. The satellite constellation forming unit sequentially changes an orbital altitude (23) of each orbital plane of the plurality of orbital planes while maintaining a sinusoidal arrangement of the relative altitude differences between adjacent orbital planes in the plurality of orbital planes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hisayuki Mukae
  • Patent number: 11881964
    Abstract: Systems and methods for connecting devices via a virtual global network are disclosed. In one embodiment the network system may comprise a first device in communication with a first endpoint device and a second device in communication with a second endpoint device. The first and second devices may be connected with a communication path. The communication path may comprise one or more intermediate tunnels connecting each endpoint device to one or more intermediate access point servers and one or more control servers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: UMBRA TECHNOLOGIES LTD.
    Inventors: Joseph E. Rubenstein, Jørn Allan Dose Knutsen, Thibaud August Bernard Jean Saint-Martin, Carlos Eduardo Oré, Fred Broussard
  • Patent number: 11876601
    Abstract: A multiple-access transceiver handles communications with mobile stations in environments that exceed mobile station design assumptions without necessarily requiring modifications to the mobile stations. One such environment is in Earth orbit. The multiple-access transceiver is adapted to close communications with mobile stations while exceeding mobile station design assumptions, such as greater distance, greater relative motion and/or other conditions commonly found where functionality of a terrestrial transceiver is to be performed by an orbital transceiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Lynk Global, Inc.
    Inventors: Tyghe Robert Speidel, Andrew J Gerber
  • Patent number: 11863292
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for coordinated satellite and terrestrial channel utilization, are disclosed. One wireless system includes one or more controllers. For an embodiment, the one or more controllers are operative to (or configured to) determine one or more communication delays for each base station of a plurality of base stations based upon a maximum propagation delay between each base station and one or more of a plurality of hubs, generate a channel sharing map that includes a timing of communication between each base station and the one or more of the plurality of hubs, wherein each of the plurality of base stations operates to time wireless communication with the plurality of hubs based on the channel sharing map, and the one or more communication delays of the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Skylo Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Nuttall, Meghna Agrawal, Vijay Lewis
  • Patent number: 11864164
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to apparatus and methods of monitoring a region by a transmitting device within a wireless medium for transmissions using at least one directional beam covering the region. Upon determining that the region in the wireless medium is free of transmissions, the transmitting device transmits to a plurality of wireless devices in the region using a plurality of spatially separated directional beams. Other aspects of the disclosure relate to apparatus and methods for receiving an instruction, e.g., at a user equipment (UE), to perform a channel assessment at a first time. The UE monitors a region within a wireless medium for transmissions after receiving the instruction. Upon determining that the region is free of transmissions, the UE may send an acknowledgment of the received instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Arumugam Chendamarai Kannan, Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang, Vinay Chande, Srinivas Yerramalli, Tao Luo, Juan Montojo
  • Patent number: 11863148
    Abstract: A base-band (kHz to MHz range) very low frequency active impedance tuner allows controlling the reflection factor at a multitude of frequencies in the base-band for systematic evaluation of the effect of bias networks on nonlinear quantities of a RF transistor, like EVM and ACPR. It comprises an electronically controlled active heterodyne feedback loop, frequency mixing, filtering and a remotely controlled digital electronic tuner. The digital electronic tuning feedback module operates at standard octave band GHz range, which allows controlling impedances over several decades in the base-band frequency range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Inventor: Christos Tsironis
  • Patent number: 11863289
    Abstract: A satellite communication system in which a plurality of satellites each transit about the Earth in a common mid-Earth orbit. The orbit may be configured such that each satellite of the plurality of satellites follows a common, repeating ground track relative to the surface of the Earth. In turn, one or more repeating sky tracks may be defined relative to at least one ground station such that the ground station is in continuous communication with at least one of the plurality of satellites. In an example, a ground station may have visibility to a plurality of repeating sky tracks such that a plurality of discreet communication channels is provided that use different satellites for communication with user terminals of the satellite communications system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: VIASAT, INC.
    Inventor: Aaron Mendelsohn
  • Patent number: 11856643
    Abstract: An electronic equipment 100 includes a cellular communicator 111 configured to perform cellular communication with a base station, a GNSS receiver 120 configured to receive, from a satellite, a satellite signal of information related to disaster, and a controller 130 configured to control whether to perform processing of the satellite signal in response to whether the electronic equipment 100 is in an area of the cellular communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Shibasaki, Daisuke Haraki, Yoshinori Senoo
  • Patent number: 11856408
    Abstract: Methods of pairing devices wirelessly that include matching received-signal-strength information regarding signal-strength patterns received by differing devices desired to be paired. In some embodiments, signal-strength patterns are based on a user moving an object so as to intentionally create multipath Fresnel-zone propagation disturbances. During pairing, the devices exchange their received-signal-strength information with one another and compare the received-signal-strength information that they receive from another device to the received-signal-strength information that they generated themselves based on the multipath Fresnel-zone propagation disturbances. When the two sets of receive-signal-strength information substantially match one another, the devices determine the presence of a trusted relationship. Methods for assisting with the wireless pairing are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Trustees of Dartmouth College
    Inventors: Timothy J. Pierson, Jonathan F. Alter
  • Patent number: 11848743
    Abstract: Various arrangements for spectrum sharing among a terrestrial network and a non-terrestrial network are presented herein. A first bandwidth part having a first frequency range for may be assigned use for communication between one or more UE of a plurality of UE and a terrestrial cellular network when a high signal strength is present. A second bandwidth part having a second frequency range may be assigned for use for communication between one or more UE of the plurality of UE and the terrestrial cellular network when a low signal strength is present. A third bandwidth part having a third frequency range can be assigned for use for communication between one or more UE of the plurality of UE and a non-terrestrial network. The third bandwidth part can overlap with the first bandwidth part but not the second bandwidth part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: DISH Wireless L.L.C
    Inventors: Mariam Sorond, Siddhartha Chenumolu, Mehdi Alasti
  • Patent number: 11843944
    Abstract: Some implementations of the disclosure are directed to preventing unauthorized transmissions of an outdoor IP Radio by an unauthorized user tapping the connection between an indoor unit and the outdoor IP Radio. In one implementation, a method comprises: initializing, over an interfacility link (IFL) connecting an indoor unit of a satellite terminal and an outdoor Internet Protocol (IP) Radio of the satellite terminal, a communication link between the indoor unit and the outdoor IP Radio; authenticating, using the indoor unit and the outdoor IP Radio, the communication link between the indoor unit and the outdoor IP radio; and after authenticating the communication link, providing satellite network service to the indoor unit via the outdoor IP Radio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: HUGHES NETWORK SYSTEMS, LLC
    Inventors: Emanuel Harrington, David McLaurin
  • Patent number: 11843985
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed for enforcing limited mobility in a mobile network. For example, a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may receive (e.g., receive from a network) a mapping of physical cell identifications (PCIs) to area identifications (AIDs). The WTRU may determine a first PCI associated with a first neighbor cell. The WTRU may determine, based on the first PCI and the PCIs to AIDs mapping, whether the WTRU is allowed to access the first neighbor cell. The WTRU may perform cell selection or reselection with the first neighbor cell as a cell selection or reselection candidate. The WTRU may perform cell selection or reselection based on the WTRU determining that the WTRU is allowed to access the first neighbor cell. The WTRU may determine that the WTRU is allowed to access the first neighbor cell based on the first PCI and the PCIs to AIDs mapping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Guanzhou Wang, Saad Ahmad
  • Patent number: 11832288
    Abstract: A communication control device includes: a selection unit that selects, on the basis of a protection target range which is set to the air above a communication device of a second wireless system on the basis of a position of the communication device of the second wireless system which secondarily uses a frequency resource primarily used by a first wireless system, a communication device of the first wireless system as a target for calculating interference applied by the communication device of the second wireless system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryota Kimura, Sho Furuichi, Hiroto Kuriki, Shinichiro Tsuda, Ryo Sawai
  • Patent number: 11805064
    Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for estimating the location of a satellite terminal. The terminal is selected from among a plurality of terminals, and one or more position estimates are generated for a satellite which provides service to the terminal. The position estimated can be generated, for example, by performing a first one or more iterative grid searches over a plurality of potential position estimates for the satellite. A location estimate is subsequently generated for the terminal by performing a second one or more iterative grid searches over a plurality of potential location estimates for the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Murali Regunathan, Jack Rozmaryn
  • Patent number: 11804915
    Abstract: Provided are a broadcast beam weight determination method and apparatus, a broadcast beam weight determination network element, a storage medium and a communications system. The broadcast beam weight determination method includes: determining a predicted performance indicator corresponding to a candidate broadcast beam weight combination according to user information of a region; determining a first broadcast beam weight combination corresponding to an optimal predicted performance indicator; and applying the first broadcast beam weight combination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Bin Li
  • Patent number: 11799542
    Abstract: A satellite system may have a constellation of communications satellites that provides services to users with electronic devices such as portable electronic devices and home and office equipment. A network operations center may use gateways to communicate with the satellite constellation. The satellite constellation may include sets of satellites with different orbits such as circular orbits with different inclinations, sets of satellites with elliptic orbits, sets of satellites with circular orbits of different altitudes including low earth orbits, medium earth orbits, and/or geosynchronous orbits, and/or sets of satellites with other orbits. The satellite orbits of the satellites in the satellite constellation may be selected to provide coverage to desired user population concentrations at different locations on the earth without using an excessive number of satellites.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Inventors: Robert Vaughan, Greg Busche, Brett Poirier, Robert Hawkins
  • Patent number: 11792708
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for call management. A method may comprise determining at least a portion of a network topology. A handoff parameter may be determined based on one or more of network telemetry information or reliability information associated with the network topology. A handoff may be caused, based on at least the handoff parameter, between a first network device and a second network device associated with the network topology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Larry Wolcott, Robert Gonsalves, Thomas Bach
  • Patent number: 11784693
    Abstract: Coverage cluster-based beamforming in a wireless node in a wireless communications system (WCS) is provided. In a conventional beamforming system, a wireless node (e.g., base station) periodically emits multiple reference beams, each steered toward a predefined direction, to provide a blanket coverage in a coverage area. Contrary to providing the blanket coverage, a wireless node disclosed herein is configured to provide targeted coverage in a coverage area. Specifically, the wireless node is configured to dynamically group multiple coverage points (e.g., user equipment, high user density area, etc.) into multiple coverage clusters. Accordingly, the wireless node can form and steer a respective reference beam toward each of the coverage clusters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Benjamin Imanilov, Viacheslav Viacheslavovich Ivanov
  • Patent number: 11785627
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a resource preemption method, an apparatus, and a system, to reduce a quantity of times of frequent resource preemption, and improve resource security. In one example, a first terminal device obtains a first time interval and a second time interval, and preempts or determines not to preempt a first resource according to a first preset rule. The first resource is a resource reserved by a second terminal device or a resource reserved for a first service to be transmitted by the first terminal device. The first time interval is a time interval related to the first resource. The second time interval is used to indicate a preemption forbidden time. The first preset rule is determined based on the first time interval and the second time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chang Yu, Junren Chang, Xiangdong Zhang
  • Patent number: 11785444
    Abstract: An Internet of things (IoT) wireless communication module. The IoT wireless communication module comprises an antenna, a radio transceiver coupled to the antenna, an embedded universal integrated circuit card (eUICC) coupled to the radio transceiver, where the eUICC is provisioned with a plurality of eSIM profiles, a non-transitory memory, a processor coupled to the non-transitory memory, to the radio transceiver, and to the eUICC, and an eSIM profile adapter application stored in the non-transitory memory. When executed by the processor, the eSIM profile adapter application determines a system installation context of the IoT wireless communication module, selects one of the plurality of eSIM profiles stored in the eUICC based on the system installation context, and activates the selected eSIM profile in the eUICC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: T-Mobile Innovations LLC
    Inventor: Dhananjay Indurkar
  • Patent number: 11777594
    Abstract: Techniques for determining the position of a transmitter using two or more antenna arrays are described. According to some techniques, first and second antenna arrays create respective sets of receive beams, and at least some of the receive beams of each array detect symbols of a preamble symbol sequence. The respective sets of receive beams that detected the symbols are sorted by path length, and a shortest path length from the transmitter to the respective arrays is determined. An intersection point of the shortest paths is used to determine the position of the transmitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Hubble Network Inc.
    Inventor: Ben Juda Wild
  • Patent number: 11764861
    Abstract: Interferences in multi-feeder links on a same frequency between an aerial-floating type communication relay apparatus and plural gateway (GW) stations are dynamically suppressed. Each of the plural GW stations transmits plural pilot signals with frequencies different from each other in the feeder link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: HAPSMobile Inc.
    Inventors: Takafumi Fujii, Teruya Fujii
  • Patent number: 11758357
    Abstract: A target user equipment (UE), which may be a vehicle or UE carried by a pedestrian, may receive sequentially broadcast ranging signals from a set of ranging source entities (SEs), which may be road side units or other vehicles. The target UE further receives location information separately broadcast by each SEs. The location information, for example, may include the position for the SE, the time of transmission of the ranging signals transmitted by the SE and/or a sequence identifier for the SE. The target UE may determine ranges to the SEs using time of arrival measurements for the ranging signals and the time of transmissions of the ranging signals or the sequence identifier received in the location information. The position of the target UE may be determined using the determined ranges to the SEs and the positions of the SEs received in the location information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Chang-Sik Choi, Kapil Gulati, Sudhir Kumar Baghel, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11750275
    Abstract: A communication system has a phased antenna array configured to communicate via a plurality of beams with a wireless device, such as user equipment (e.g., a smart phone). The plurality of beams define a field of view of the phased antenna array, the field of view having a plurality of cells and each of the plurality of beams is associated with one of the plurality of cells within the field of view. A processing device detects the wireless device within the field of view and determines a coarse geographic location of the wireless device within the field of view of the wireless device when the wireless device is within the field of view, or within a cell. The system further determines a fine geographic location for the wireless device based on frequency offset (due to Doppler) and signal flight time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: AST & Science, LLC
    Inventors: Raymond J. Sedwick, Abel Avellan
  • Patent number: 11751165
    Abstract: A method for operating an infrastructure equipment forming part of a radio access network part of a wireless communications network is provided. The method comprising configuring a notification area of a radio access network part by determining one or more base stations and/or one or more of non-terrestrial network parts which form part of the notification area, the base stations and/or the non-terrestrial network parts of the notification area being for use in transmitting signals to a communications device from the wireless communications network, determining, based on the notification area and on a present time, which one of the base stations and/or the non-terrestrial network parts of the notification area is presently serving the communications device, and transmitting a paging message to the serving base station or serving non terrestrial network part for subsequent transmission to the communications device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuxin Wei, Vivek Sharma, Hideji Wakabayashi, Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri, Yassin Aden Awad
  • Patent number: 11736219
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a communication control device includes a communication unit and a jamming control unit. The communication unit wirelessly communicates with a first device and uploads information acquired from the first device to a second device via a network. The jamming control unit allows jamming radio waves to be output to interfere with wireless communication between the first device and a device other than the communication control device, the device being to perform wireless communication in a communication band used by the first device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kengo Iwasaki, Hiroki Fukuoka
  • Patent number: 11729633
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for communicating in a satellite communication framework with spatial diversity are described. In one embodiment, a method for controlling communication in a satellite communication network having multiple constellations and a satellite terminal with a single electronically steered flat-panel antenna capable of generating a plurality of beams for communication links with multiple satellites, comprises: determining, under network control, availability of a plurality of networks by which network traffic may be exchanged with the single electronically steered flat-panel antenna; and managing, under network control, two or more satellite links between the single electronically steered flat-panel antenna and two or more satellites of different networks to route the network traffic, including determining when to use each of the two or more satellite links, the two or more satellite links being generated using two or more beams from the single electronically steered flat-panel antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Kymeta Corporation
    Inventors: Maxwell A. Smoot, Alexander L. Bautista, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11728884
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure describe methods and systems for transmitting data via a satellite to a ground node. In one exemplary aspect, a method comprises splitting, on a satellite, a data segment into a plurality of data chunks, wherein an amount of the data chunks equals a number of ground nodes that the data chunks will be transmitted to. For each respective data chunk, the method comprises determining whether the satellite has a stable connection with the respective ground node. When the satellite has the stable connection with the respective ground node, the method comprises transmitting, by the satellite, the respective data chunk to the respective ground node, and when the satellite does not have the stable connection with the respective ground node, the method comprises transmitting, by the satellite, the respective data chunk to a neighboring satellite for storage until the stable connection is established.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Acronis Interna banal GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Tormasov, Serguei Beloussov, Stanislav Protasov
  • Patent number: 11722848
    Abstract: A location of a computing device may be determined by determining the range of a communication. Several different wireless communication protocols and/or wireless networks (e.g., Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Cellular, and/or GPS) may be used to determine the user's location. When the user's location is determined, one or more actions (e.g., granting access to content) may be performed based on the user's location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Corey Farrell
  • Patent number: 11711140
    Abstract: An apparatus and method are disclosed for mitigating pointing errors resulting from satellite antennas. Reports are received from terminals in a beam hopping satellite communication system, and a pointing error associated with a satellite antenna is determined. The best beam for communicating with each terminal is selected based on the pointing error. A beam list containing the instantaneous traffic demand of terminals for each beam in the system is generated. An active beam set is then selected from the beam list for transmitting data during the next hop in the satellite communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Stan Kay, Udaya Bhaskar
  • Patent number: 11709816
    Abstract: Methods and systems for optimizing a data structure are disclosed. An example method can comprise categorizing, based on travel information associated with a vehicle, locations according to at least one of a first category and a second category. An example method can comprise generating search criteria configured to select first data for locations categorized with the first category and second data for locations categorized with the second category. The first data can be more detailed than the second data. An example method can comprise receiving information based on the search criteria and providing the information to the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Federal Express Corporation
    Inventors: Larry Hills, Ross Armstrong, Carlos Sosa
  • Patent number: 11711137
    Abstract: A user terminal and a method of using the user terminal disclosed. The method may comprise: storing, at a user terminal (UT), a dataset that comprises a plurality of elements, wherein each of the plurality of elements is associated with a unique predetermined terrestrial location; using the dataset, determining an element (Ek) from among the plurality of elements based on a proximity of the UT to the respective unique, predetermined terrestrial location of the element (Ek); and then determining one of the plurality of satellite beams with which to utilize satellite communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Hughes Network Systems LLC
    Inventors: Murali Regunathan, David A. Roos
  • Patent number: 11708180
    Abstract: The embodiments herein provide a system and method for integrated optimization of design and performance of satellite constellations. The present disclosure provides a method for optimization of design and performance of satellite constellation to provide internet connectivity at preset geographic regions. In current methods, the optimizations of subsystems are performed independently and the results are combined, resulting in a loss of overall optimality. The present disclosure defines the relationships between subsystems such that integrity of complete design is tested with fewer complexities and provides an integrated optimization framework, in which every subsystem is optimized individually and collectively. The present disclosure provides a method for optimization of power subsystem of satellites by determining the pattern of payload operation and need for peak power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: ASTROME TECHNOLOGIES PRIVATE LIMITED
    Inventors: Neha Satak, Prasad Horabailu Laxminarayana, Pranav Dilip Keskar
  • Patent number: 11705963
    Abstract: A system and method for managing a transmit power of a terminal includes dividing a spectrum into frequency bins and an inroute layout including inroutes; mapping at least one of the frequency bins with each of the inroute; determining a respective normalized Transmit Power (TP) for each of the frequency bins; calculating a transmission TP based on the respective normalized TP of one or more of the frequency bins mapped to a selected inroute; and transmitting a radio signal with the transmission TP on the selected inroute. A first frequency bin is adjacent a second frequency bin, a respective normalized TP of the first frequency bin compared to a respective normalized TP of the second frequency bin varies no more than a threshold power delta, a count of frequency bins is greater than one and unequal to a count of the inroute layout.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Murali Regunathan, Shivika Pathania
  • Patent number: 11696189
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for wireless communication via a non-terrestrial network (NTN). In one aspect, a method for wireless communication includes initiating, by a user equipment (UE), a registration process with a network entity of an NTN to access the NTN. The method further includes transmitting, by the UE to the network entity, UE capability information of the UE. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Huilin Xu, Qiang Wu, Jun Ma, Xiao Feng Wang, Iyab Issam Sakhnini, Dan Zhang, Liangping Ma
  • Patent number: 11688921
    Abstract: A satellite-communications gateway includes a pedestal, a hub movably coupled to the pedestal and supported by the pedestal, an antenna configured for satellite communications, first electronics positioned inside the hub, and second electronics communicatively coupled to the first electronics and positioned inside the pedestal. The antenna is mounted to the hub and supported by the pedestal via the hub. The first electronics is arranged to convert a radio-frequency signal from the antenna to an intermediate-frequency signal and transmit the intermediate-frequency signal to the second electronics. The second electronics is arranged to convert the intermediate-frequency signal to a digital signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventor: Michael Scott
  • Patent number: 11689306
    Abstract: A system comprises a computer having a processor and a memory, the memory storing instructions executable by the processor to identify data to be communicated to a satellite gateway via a satellite, the data including first data and second data, determine to communicate the data to the satellite gateway in a time-division multiplexing (TDM) and time-division multiple access (TDMA) (TDM/TDMA) concurrent transmission mode, and responsive to the determination to communicate the data to the satellite gateway in the TDM/TDMA concurrent transmission mode, transmit the first data to the satellite according to a TDM channel access scheme and transmit the second data to the satellite according to a TDMA channel access scheme that differs from the TDM channel access scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Suchita Sahu, Bala Subramaniam, Paul LaCasse
  • Patent number: 11689279
    Abstract: A network management systems (NMS) and methods for automating aircraft wideband streaming L band providing dedicated high data rate communication links from an aircraft fitted with an approved L-band terminal and antenna over a satellite communication network, such as the Inmarsat Swift Broadband network. The systems and methods allow for modifying the L-band terminal wiring to inject a dedicated single channel per carrier (SCPC) signal from an external modem to achieve return data rates in the range of several Mbps over a dedicated leased satellite bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Satcom Direct, Inc.
    Inventors: Rodrigo Gomez, Timothy W. Knowles, Ben T. Vuong, Lasse Thorbro-Steenberg
  • Patent number: 11689935
    Abstract: A maritime network provides network coverage for nautical or aerospace vehicles traveling over the sea. Generating the network configuration for the maritime network includes receiving client information for client devices in range of a given node of the maritime network for a period of time that the client devices are traveling asea, as well as location information for the period of time from a plurality of nodes in the network including the given node. Based on the client information and the location information, a network configuration is determined to include a plurality of links to be formed for routing paths through the maritime network. The routing paths are configured to transmit data related to the client devices, and the plurality of links includes a link between the given node and another node in the network that is within a maximum distance from the given node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Aalyria Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Barritt, Sharath Ananth
  • Patent number: 11689957
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first user equipment (UE) (e.g., a relay UE) may establish a relay connection for routing communications between a network entity (e.g., a base station) and a second UE (e.g., a remote UE). The relay connection may include a sidelink connection and an access link connection. The remote UE may transmit a request to the network entity via the relay UE. The request may include a relay service code associated with the sidelink connection, as well as a request for quality of service (QoS) support for the relay connection. Based on the request, the network entity may determine a QoS configuration for the relay connection. The network entity may indicate the QoS configuration to the UEs via the relay connection. The UEs may adjust parameters of the relay connection to meet the specifications of the QoS configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Karthika Paladugu, Hong Cheng, Gavin Bernard Horn