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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 22, 2019
Applicant:
Totum Labs, Inc., San Diego, CA (US);
Inventors:
Theodore Jon Myers, San Diego, CA (US);
Matthew Zacchariah Hughes, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
TOTUM LABS, INC., San Diego, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/185 (2006.01); H04W 84/06 (2009.01); H04B 7/01 (2006.01); H04B 17/40 (2015.01); H04W 64/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/01 (2013.01); H04B 7/185 (2013.01); H04B 7/18513 (2013.01); H04B 7/18515 (2013.01); H04B 7/18521 (2013.01); H04B 7/18595 (2013.01); H04B 17/40 (2015.01); H04W 64/003 (2013.01); H04B 7/18523 (2013.01);
Abstract
An illustrative embodiment disclosed herein is a satellite including a transceiver, a first antenna, a second antenna, and a switch to enable only the first antenna by electrically coupling the first antenna to the transceiver responsive to a satellite constellation having less than a threshold number of satellites and enable only the second antenna by electrically coupling the second antenna to the transceiver responsive to the satellite constellation having greater than the threshold number of satellites.