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Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2022

Filed:

Jul. 28, 2020
Applicant:

Ast & Science, Llc, Miami, FL (US);

Inventors:

Huiwen Yao, Potomac, MD (US);

Abel Avellan, Coral Gables, FL (US);

Sriram Jayasimha, Midland, TX (US);

Zhi Zhong Yu, Reading, GB;

Assignee:

AST & Science, LLC, Miami, FL (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/185 (2006.01); H04B 7/155 (2006.01); H04B 7/0413 (2017.01); H04B 7/01 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/18521 (2013.01); H04B 7/01 (2013.01); H04B 7/0413 (2013.01); H04B 7/1555 (2013.01);
Abstract

A base station for communication with a terminal station having a plurality of terminal station antennas. The base station has a plurality of directional antennas, each of the plurality of directional antennas in communication with satellites in view. The base station also has a processing device (e.g., eNodeB) to transmit each of the multiple base-station antenna signals via each of the plurality of directional antennas to satellites and/or the beams of the same satellite seen by the terminal station for retransmission to the plurality of terminal station antennas.


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