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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.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2022

Filed:

Dec. 22, 2020
Applicant:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);

Inventors:

Prabu Ramachandran, Ashburn, VA (US);

Nathan Burns, Chesterfield, MO (US);

Michelle Lynn Dobbs, Denver, CO (US);

Andrew Wolfe, Denver, CO (US);

Kevin Cheek, Herndon, VA (US);

John Garvey, Reston, VA (US);

Ben Linville, Englewood, CO (US);

Ismael Gonzales, Littleton, CO (US);

Assignee:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/185 (2006.01); H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H04W 28/26 (2009.01); H04W 16/26 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/044 (2013.01); H04W 16/26 (2013.01); H04W 28/26 (2013.01); H04W 72/048 (2013.01);
Abstract

A matchmaking service can match a satellite owner/operator with antennas that are available and capable of servicing a communication request from the satellite owner/operator (e.g., to exchange data with the satellite owner/operator's satellite). The communication request may be received at a ground station service, and information included therein may be compared to capabilities of antennas registered with the ground station service to determine antennas that are compatible with the request. The ground station service may reserve a time slot for a selected compatible antenna to service the request and control the selected compatible antenna (e.g., to track and communicate with the satellite) during the time slot. In some embodiments, the matchmaking of satellite owners/operators to antennas uses models to determine communication parameters for a communication request and to determine capabilities of antennas registered with the ground station.


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