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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2015
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
James Determan, Encinitas, CA (US);
Dan Vassilovski, Del Mar, CA (US);
Peyman Razaghi, San Diego, CA (US);
Allen Minh-Triet Tran, San Diego, CA (US);
Mehmet Izzet Gurelli, San Diego, CA (US);
Sumeeth Nagaraja, San Diego, CA (US);
Peter John Black, San Diego, CA (US);
Qiang Wu, San Diego, CA (US);
Gene Wesley Marsh, Encinitas, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
A non-geosynchronous satellite system, where each satellite has an antenna (perhaps a multi-element antenna) to form a beam pattern comprising a set of beams in the footprint of the satellite, where in one implementation each beam is substantially elliptical in shape having a minor axis and a major axis, where the minor axes are substantially collinear and the major axes are substantially oriented east to west. For a satellite, power is reduced or turned off for a subset of the set of beams, wherein each beam in the subset is reduced at or below a corresponding power level such that when a beam is powered above its corresponding power level an equivalent power flux-density (EPFD) exceeds a limit at some point on the Earth's surface.