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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 11, 2019
Applicant:
Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited, Wanchai, HK;
Inventors:
Roger Shun Hong Tong, New Territories, HK;
Fred Chun Yin Vong, New Territories, HK;
Kat Fan Yip, New Territories, HK;
Hai Hu, New Territories, HK;
Man Hei Chan, New Territories, HK;
Harry Yin Chung Leung, New Territories, HK;
Assignee:
Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited, Wanchai, HK;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/185 (2006.01); H04W 16/28 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/18513 (2013.01); H04B 7/18578 (2013.01); H04W 16/28 (2013.01);
Abstract
A high throughput satellite and a method of operating a high throughput satellite. The satellite has multiple modes of operation and transitions between them in response to the spectrum fill rate. Modes of operation may include altering color re-use patterns to increase or reduce number of colors, using intra-beam geographic sub-division, or precoding downlink signals.