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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 29, 2020
Loon Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Cyrus Behroozi, Menlo Park, CA (US);
SOFTBANK CORP., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Aspects of the technology include establishing a primary communication link between a communication system of a first balloon and a communication system of a second balloon, detecting a movement of the second balloon relative to the first balloon that is expected to cause the primary communication link to become unavailable at a given time during the movement, establishing an RF communication link between an RF communication system of the first balloon and an RF communication system of the second balloon, detecting that the movement of the second balloon relative to the first balloon is such that the primary communication link between the communication system of the first balloon and the optical communication system of the second balloon can be re-established, and re-establishing the primary communication link between the communication system of the first balloon and the communication system of the second balloon.