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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2011
Filed:
May. 03, 2007
Emil Youssefzadeh, Palos Verdes Estates, CA (US);
Hans Peter Lexow, Oslo, NO;
Richard R. Forberg, Windham, NH (US);
Emil Youssefzadeh, Palos Verdes Estates, CA (US);
Hans Peter Lexow, Oslo, NO;
Richard R. Forberg, Windham, NH (US);
STM Networks, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus are disclosed to enable a fixed or a mobile ground based slave stations (VSAT: Very Small Aperture Terminal) in a communication network to receive TDM transmissions from and transmit TDMA burst transmissions to one or more ground-based gateway stations in a networking system that employs one or more geosynchronous satellites. Each gateway station transmits on one or more forward TDM channels to the slave stations; however, one primary gateway acts as the master station at any given time which transmits the network control messages to the slave stations (VSATs) that control their TDMA transmission behavior on the network.