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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:
Jan. 16, 2024

Filed:

Feb. 07, 2023
Applicant:

Hughes Network Systems, Llc, Germantown, MD (US);

Inventors:

Eric Humphrey, Germantown, MD (US);

Suresh Korada, Germantown, MD (US);

Guy Montgomery, Germantown, MD (US);

Assignee:

Hughes Network Systems, LLC, Germantown, MD (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/185 (2006.01); H04W 76/30 (2018.01); H04W 76/10 (2018.01); H04J 3/16 (2006.01); H04W 28/10 (2009.01); H04W 88/16 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/18541 (2013.01); H04J 3/1694 (2013.01); H04W 28/10 (2013.01); H04W 76/10 (2018.02); H04W 76/30 (2018.02); H04W 88/16 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system and method for beam switching by a User Terminal (UT). The method includes initiating a beam switch between an old beam and a new beam when the UT is disposed in an overlap area of the old beam and the new beam; duplicating over the new beam, at a Network Access Point (NAP), user traffic to the UT; and assigning a Time Division Multiplex Access (TDMA) allocation for the UT on the new beam, prior to an arrival of the UT on the new beam, where the user traffic traversing a satellite network remains uninterrupted during the beam switch and the NAP redirects user traffic for the UT via the old beam to the new beam.


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