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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 08, 2017
Blue Digs Llc, Wilmington, DE (US);
Keith Williamson, Los Angeles, CA (US);
James Scott, Manhattan Beach, CA (US);
Other;
Abstract
A satellite system may have a constellation of communications satellites that provides services to users with user devices such as portable electronic devices and home and office equipment. The constellation of satellites may include low-earth orbit satellites or other non-geostationary satellites having coverage areas that move across the surface of the Earth as the satellites orbit the Earth. The system may have gateways that communicate with the user devices as satellites move into and out of range. Computing equipment at a gateway or associated metropolitan point of presence may direct the gateways to handover communications sessions with the user devices from an outgoing satellite to an incoming satellite. Handover operations may involve handovers in prioritized batches, make-before-break handover procedures, and break-before-make handover procedures.