Invention Grant
US08494445B2 Flexible coverage areas for forward link signals in a spot beam satellite communication system
有权
光束卫星通信系统中的前向链路信号的灵活覆盖区域
- Patent Title: Flexible coverage areas for forward link signals in a spot beam satellite communication system
- Patent Title (中): 光束卫星通信系统中的前向链路信号的灵活覆盖区域
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Application No.: US13019841Application Date: 2011-02-02
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Publication No.: US08494445B2Publication Date: 2013-07-23
- Inventor: Mark Miller
- Applicant: Mark Miller
- Applicant Address: US CA Carlsbad
- Assignee: ViaSat, Inc.
- Current Assignee: ViaSat, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Carlsbad
- Agency: Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
- Main IPC: H04B7/185
- IPC: H04B7/185

Abstract:
Conventional spot beam satellites transmit downlink beams that each correspond to a separate and unique uplink signal. Power available for each downlink beam is typically set by an associated amplifier on the satellite, and total transmit power cannot be dynamically distributed across different spot beams. An embodiment of the present invention overcomes this distribution limitation by using multiple replicas of a single signal as input to a multi-port amplifier that allows transmit power to be dynamically distributed across the different spot beams. The replicas may be de-correlated through techniques such as selectively delaying some of the replicas. This power distribution effectively allows dynamic allocation of capacity between areas serviced by different beams. Offered load in different beams can be predicted and used to set the attenuation values appropriately and the attenuation values may also be controlled remotely.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110189948A1 FLEXIBLE COVERAGE AREAS FOR FORWARD LINK SIGNALS IN A SPOT BEAM SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2011-08-04
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