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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:
Feb. 25, 2025

Filed:

Sep. 21, 2023
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Huiwen Yao, Potomac, MD (US);

Abel Avellan, Coral Gables, FL (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/185 (2006.01); H01Q 3/26 (2006.01); H01Q 5/50 (2015.01); H01Q 25/00 (2006.01); H04B 7/10 (2017.01); H04B 7/204 (2006.01); H04W 16/28 (2009.01); H04W 48/20 (2009.01); H04W 76/10 (2018.01); H04W 84/06 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/18513 (2013.01); H01Q 3/2605 (2013.01); H01Q 5/50 (2015.01); H01Q 25/00 (2013.01); H04B 7/10 (2013.01); H04B 7/1851 (2013.01); H04B 7/18523 (2013.01); H04B 7/18578 (2013.01); H04B 7/2041 (2013.01); H04W 16/28 (2013.01); H04W 48/20 (2013.01); H04W 76/10 (2018.02); H04W 84/06 (2013.01);
Abstract

Within a satellite communications system, a base station communicates with standard compliant user equipment (UE) via a satellite having a field of view. The base station has a processor that instructs the satellite to generate a wide beam signal covering a plurality of cells in the field of view, and detects an access request from a user equipment within the plurality of cells over the wide beam signal. The base station, comprising a processing device such as an eNodeB, then generates one or more network broadcast/access signals that is uplink to a satellite and broadcasted via one or more nominal beams generated by the satellite, covering all the inactive cells, one of the plurality of cells having the access request.


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