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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2006
Filed:
Nov. 22, 2000
Harold A. Rosen, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Donald C. D. Chang, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);
Ming U. Chang, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA (US);
Weizheng Wang, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA (US);
John I. Novak, Iii, West Hills, CA (US);
Wah L. Lim, Santa Ana, CA (US);
Harold A. Rosen, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Donald C. D. Chang, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);
Ming U. Chang, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA (US);
Weizheng Wang, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA (US);
John I. Novak, III, West Hills, CA (US);
Wah L. Lim, Santa Ana, CA (US);
The DirecTV Group, Inc., El Segundo, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for communicating and a communications system apparatus are disclosed. The apparatus comprises a communications platform and a gateway communicatively coupleable with a terrestrially-based network. The communications platform is disposed in a stratospheric location and transponds information between at least one of a plurality of user terminals and the gateway in essentially a bent pipe fashion. The method comprises the steps of receiving a first signal from the user terminal having an antenna in a stratospherically-based communication platform that maintains an apparent position relative to the user terminal within a beamwidth of a user terminal antenna and transponding the first signal from the stratospherically based communications platform to a gateway ground station.