Hughes Electronics Corporation

Hughes Network Systems, LLC

Mahesh Kamath

Anthony Robert Noerpel

Abheek Saha

Channasandra S Ravishankar

Robert James Torres

Craig Schweinhart

James Hobza

Sandeep Verma

Hongjun Li

An approach is provided for communicating in a meshed network including a first terminal and a second terminal. A request from the first terminal for obtaining address information of the second terminal is submitted to a hub. The hub generates a response including the address information and the context information that specifies capabilities of the second terminal. This arrangement has particular applicability to a satellite network (e.g., Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) network) that provides data communication services.

Method and system for centrally exchanging terminal information over a meshed network

An approach for minimizing response times in transporting traffic over a packet radio communication system is disclosed. A terminal transmits a packet resource request message that specifies user terminal information using a contention channel according to a prescribed protocol. A gateway station receives the packet resource request message and transmits an assignment message that specifies a channel assignment based upon the user terminal information, wherein the terminal is configured to transmit the packets over a channel is based on the channel assignment. This approach has particular applicability to a satellite communication system.

MAC layer protocol for a satellite based packet switched services

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