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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2019
Applicant:
Hughes Network Systems, Llc, Germantown, MD (US);
Inventor:
Douglas R. Ricker, Frederick, MD (US);
Assignee:
Hughes Network Systems, LLC, Germantown, MD (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/185 (2006.01); H04J 3/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 3/1694 (2013.01); H04B 7/18513 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system includes a satellite communications gateway including a first receiver. The first receiver is programmed to receive a first signal including a time-division multiplexed (TDM) return and a time-division multiple access (TDMA) return overlapped in an allocated frequency range. The receiver is further programmed to recover the time-division multiplexed return from the first signal; and output the time-division multiplexed return.