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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2017
Hughes Network Systems, Llc, Germantown, MD (US);
Dave Roos, Boyds, MD (US);
Hughes Network Systems, LLC, Germantown, MD (US);
Abstract
Approaches for wireless telecommunications systems (e.g., satellite systems), that employ beams that move in a pattern to increase the coverage area of the beams, are provided. A wireless telecommunications apparatus comprises an antenna configured to generate communications beams for providing data communications services over a respective coverage area on the surface of the Earth. The apparatus further comprises a processor configured to control each of at least one of the communications beams to move its coverage area in a respective pattern over a respective period of time. Further, a method comprises generating, via a wireless telecommunications apparatus, communications beams, wherein each beam provides data communications services over a respective coverage area on the surface of the Earth, and controlling each of at least one of the communications beams to move its coverage area in a respective pattern of movement over a respective period of time.