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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 29, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 08, 2023
Space Exploration Technologies Corp., Hawthorne, CA (US);
Chen Chen, Irvine, CA (US);
Pavel Chikulaev, Redmond, WA (US);
Sergii Ziuzin, Redmond, WA (US);
David Sacks, Redmond, WA (US);
Peter J. Worters, San Carlos, CA (US);
Darshan Purohit, Fremont, CA (US);
Yashodhan Dandekar, Cupertino, CA (US);
Vladimir Skuratovich, Seattle, WA (US);
Andrei Pushkin, Woodinville, WA (US);
Phillip E. Barber, Sammamish, WA (US);
Space Exploration Technologies Corp., Hawthorne, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems, methods, and non-transitory media are provided for low latency handovers. An example method can include receiving, by a user terminal associated with a cell served by a satellite, a schedule of communications between the user terminal and one or more satellites, wherein the one or more satellites comprises the satellite and a different satellite, and wherein the schedule of communications is obtained by the user terminal from the satellite; requesting, based on the schedule, a handover from a beam of the satellite to a different beam of one of the satellite or the different satellite; performing the handover from the beam of the satellite to the different beam of the one of the satellite or the different satellite; and after the handover, transmitting, by the user terminal, one or more packets via the different beam of the one of the satellite or the different satellite.