Vt Idirect, Inc.

Chao Liu

Hai Quang Tang

Jason B Maiorana

Joseph Jude Boone

David D Bettinger

Hao Cheng

Christopher Robert Burdick

Gregory Carey Braunberg

A method of sharing a satellite communication system having a common equipment includes billing a first user for sending a first message using the common equipment over a first satellite link, billing a second user for sending a second message using the common equipment over a second satellite link, wherein the first satellite link is different than the second satellite link, billing a first network operator for billing the first user, and billing a second network operator for billing the second user.

Method of sharing a satellite communication system having a hub with common equipment

A communication system, method, computer program product, and apparatus include common equipment shared between multiple independently administered networks. The common equipment is reconfigurable and expandable and provides changed communication capacity and functions when additional elements are added or reconfigured. Configurable features include, for example, communication bandwidth, Quality of Service, and a number of communication satellites included in the communication system. The common equipment includes expandable elements including, for example, a single hub modem chassis that can expand to communicate with more than one communication satellite and a protocol processor that can share a protocol processing task with another protocol processors.

Scalable communication system, method and apparatus

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Fairfax Station, VA, United States of America

Chao Liu