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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Patent No.:

US 10667188 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2020

Filed:

Jun. 19, 2018

Method and apparatus for multiplexing hybrid satellite constellations

Applicant:

Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Qiang Wu, San Diego, CA (US);

Peter John Black, La Jolla, CA (US);

Ruoheng Liu, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incoporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:

Paradice and Li LLP

Primary Examiner:

Jenee Holland

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/08 (2009.01); H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H04W 36/36 (2009.01); H04W 36/16 (2009.01); H04W 36/00 (2009.01); H04B 7/185 (2006.01); H04L 5/26 (2006.01); H04L 1/00 (2006.01); H04L 5/14 (2006.01); H04J 3/00 (2006.01); H03M 13/29 (2006.01); H04W 36/18 (2009.01); H04W 84/06 (2009.01); H04B 7/19 (2006.01); H04B 7/195 (2006.01); H03M 13/15 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/08 (2013.01); H03M 13/2966 (2013.01); H04B 7/18504 (2013.01); H04B 7/18519 (2013.01); H04B 7/18521 (2013.01); H04J 3/00 (2013.01); H04L 1/0057 (2013.01); H04L 5/1469 (2013.01); H04L 5/26 (2013.01); H04W 36/0055 (2013.01); H04W 36/165 (2013.01); H04W 36/18 (2013.01); H04W 36/36 (2013.01); H04W 72/0446 (2013.01); H03M 13/152 (2013.01); H04B 7/19 (2013.01); H04B 7/195 (2013.01); H04W 84/06 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and apparatus for operating a satellite system including different satellites that may belong to different types of satellite constellations. In some implementations, the satellite system may include a LEO satellite constellation and one or more non-LEO satellite constellations that can be used to increase the forward link capacity of the LEO satellite constellation, for example, by allowing an LEO satellite to offload at least some of its forward link traffic to one of the non-LEO satellites. The user terminals can dynamically switch forward link communications between a LEO satellite and a non-LEO satellite while maintaining a return link connection with the LEO satellite.

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