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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 28, 1995
Filed:
Sep. 15, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
France Telecom, Paris, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
455 131 ; 455 132 ;
Abstract
A telecommunications network comprises a constellation of orbiting satellites placed in low-altitude polar inclined orbits with two inter-satellite links per satellite, a network of earth-based centers enabling the management and the control of the local traffic and one or more high latitude centers to set up the interconnections between satellites that are not in one and the same orbit. Application to telephony by mobile and/or fixed terminals.