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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 23, 2016
Applicant:
Space Systems/loral, Llc, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventors:
Anne E. Wharton, Boulder Creek, CA (US);
Andrew E. Turner, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
Space Systems/Loral, LLC, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/185 (2006.01); H04B 7/204 (2006.01); H04W 36/14 (2009.01); H04W 84/06 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/18541 (2013.01); H04B 7/18523 (2013.01); H04B 7/18584 (2013.01); H04B 7/2041 (2013.01); H04W 36/14 (2013.01); H04W 84/06 (2013.01);
Abstract
A constellation of non-geosynchronous satellites are in a common orbit. Each time one of the satellites is at a trigger location, a new rolling wave of handovers is started that includes performing handovers of a group of dependent spot beams between adjacent satellites in sequence for pairs of adjacent satellites in a single direction around the orbit.