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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2023
Ast & Science, Llc, Miami, FL (US);
Huiwen Yao, Potomac, MD (US);
Abel Avellan, Coral Gables, FL (US);
AST & Science, LLC, Miami, FL (US);
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.