Motorola Corporation

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Thomas Peter Emmons, Jr

Shawn Wesley Hogberg

Gerald Joseph Davieau

Susan S Chen

In a communications system, an earth-based subscriber unit (,, FIG.,) receives at least one communications beam (,, FIG.,) transmitted from one or more moving satellite communications nodes (,). The earthbased subscriber unit evaluates which communications beam should be selected based on the power received (FIG.,), Doppler frequency shift (,), link quality, (,), interference level (,), and satellite and network specific parameters (,). By considering these factors, the earth-based subscriber unit selects the communications beam (,) that will provide the optimum service and reduce the likelihood that an inter-satellite hand over of the call will be required while the call is in progress.

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