公开(公告)号：US06463282B2

公开(公告)日：2002-10-08

申请号：US09835536

申请日：2001-04-16

申请人： John L. Norin ,  Sudhakar Rao ,  Paul Regulinski ,  Romulo Pontual

发明人： John L. Norin ,  Sudhakar Rao ,  Paul Regulinski ,  Romulo Pontual

IPC分类号： H04Q720

CPC分类号： H04B7/2041 ,  H04B7/18523

摘要： A satellite broadcast system and method, particularly useful for television signals, allows for local as well as nationwide broadcast service by allocating greater satellite resources to the more important local service areas. This is accomplished by broadcasting a non-uniform pattern of local service beams and designing the system to establish different service area priorities through factors such as the individual beam powers, sizes, roll-off characteristics and peak-to-edge power differentials. Frequency reuse is enhanced by permitting a certain degree of cross-beam interference, with lower levels of interference established for the more important service areas.

公开(公告)号：US06463281B1

公开(公告)日：2002-10-08

申请号：US09552333

申请日：2000-04-19

申请人： John L. Norin ,  Sudhakar Rao ,  Paul Regulinski ,  Romulo Pontual

发明人： John L. Norin ,  Sudhakar Rao ,  Paul Regulinski ,  Romulo Pontual

IPC分类号： H04Q720

CPC分类号： H04B7/2041 ,  H04B7/18523

摘要： A satellite broadcast system and method, particularly useful for television signals, allows for local as well as nationwide broadcast service by allocating greater satellite resources to the more important local service areas. This is accomplished by broadcasting a non-uniform pattern of local service beams and designing the system to establish different service area priorities through factors such as the individual beam powers, sizes, roll-off characteristics and peak-to-edge power differentials. Frequency reuse is enhanced by permitting a certain degree of cross-beam interference, with lower levels of interference established for the more important service areas.

公开(公告)号：US06434384B1

公开(公告)日：2002-08-13

申请号：US09160681

申请日：1998-09-25

申请人： John L. Norin ,  Sudhakar Rao ,  Paul Regulinski

发明人： John L. Norin ,  Sudhakar Rao ,  Paul Regulinski

IPC分类号： H04Q720

CPC分类号： H04B7/2041 ,  H04B7/18523

摘要： A satellite broadcast system and method, particularly useful for television signals, allows for local as well as nationwide broadcast service by allocating greater satellite resources to the more important local service areas. This is accomplished by broadcasting a non-uniform pattern of local service beams and designing the system to establish different service area priorities through factors such as the individual beam powers, sizes, roll-off characteristics and peak-to-edge power differentials. Frequency reuse is enhanced by permitting a certain degree of cross-beam interference, with lower levels of interference established for the more important service areas.

摘要翻译： 对于电视信号特别有用的卫星广播系统和方法允许通过将更多的卫星资源分配给更重要的本地服务区域来进行本地和全国的广播服务。 这是通过广播本地业务波束的不均匀模式和设计系统来实现的，以通过诸如各个波束功率，大小，滚降特性和峰值到边缘功率差的因素建立不同的服务区域优先级。 通过允许一定程度的横梁干扰，为更重要的服务区域建立较低的干扰水平来增强频率重用。

公开(公告)号：US06456846B2

公开(公告)日：2002-09-24

申请号：US09942340

申请日：2001-08-29

申请人： John L. Norin ,  Sudhakar Rao ,  Paul Regulinski ,  Romulo Pontual

发明人： John L. Norin ,  Sudhakar Rao ,  Paul Regulinski ,  Romulo Pontual

IPC分类号： H04Q720

CPC分类号： H04B7/2041 ,  H04B7/18523

摘要： A satellite broadcast system and method, particularly useful for television signals, allows for local as well as nationwide broadcast service by allocating greater satellite resources to the more important local service areas. This is accomplished by broadcasting a, non-uniform pattern of local service beams and designing the system to establish different service area priorities through factors such as the individual beam powers, sizes, roll-off characteristics and peak-to-edge power differentials. Frequency reuse is enhanced by permitting a certain degree of cross-beam interference, with lower levels of interference established for the more important service areas.

摘要翻译： 对于电视信号特别有用的卫星广播系统和方法允许通过将更多的卫星资源分配给更重要的本地服务区域来进行本地和全国的广播服务。 这是通过广播本地业务波束的不均匀模式和设计系统来实现的，以通过诸如各个波束功率，大小，滚降特性和峰值到边缘功率差的因素来建立不同的服务区域优先级。 通过允许一定程度的横梁干扰，为更重要的服务区域建立较低的干扰水平来增强频率重用。

公开(公告)号：US08712318B2

公开(公告)日：2014-04-29

申请号：US12127718

申请日：2008-05-27

申请人： John L. Norin

发明人： John L. Norin

IPC分类号： H04H20/74

CPC分类号： H04H40/90

摘要： Systems and devices for receiving satellite signals are disclosed. A system in accordance with the present invention comprises a plurality of amplifiers, each amplifier in the plurality of amplifiers receiving the signals, a Frequency Translation Module, comprising a plurality of analog-to-digital converters, wherein each amplifier in the plurality of amplifiers is coupled to a separate analog-to-digital converter in the plurality of analog-to-digital converters, wherein the plurality of analog-to-digital converters convert the signals into digital data streams, a digital signal processing section, coupled to the plurality of analog-to-digital converters, wherein the digital signal processing section at least translates the frequency of the digital data streams and filters the digital data streams, a digital-to-analog section, coupled to the digital signal processing section; wherein the digital-to-analog section downconverts the satellite signals to an intermediate frequency band, and a receiver, coupled to the digital-to-analog section, wherein the receiver receives an output of the digital-to-analog section of the module at the intermediate frequency band, the output of the digital to analog section being on a single coaxial cable.

摘要翻译： 公开了用于接收卫星信号的系统和设备。 根据本发明的系统包括多个放大器，多个放大器中的每个放大器接收信号，频率转换模块，包括多个模数转换器，其中多个放大器中的每个放大器是 耦合到所述多个模数转换器中的单独的模拟 - 数字转换器，其中所述多个模数转换器将所述信号转换成数字数据流，数字信号处理部分耦合到所述多个模数转换器 模数转换器，其中所述数字信号处理部分至少翻译数字数据流的频率并对数字数据流进行滤波，数字 - 模拟部分耦合到数字信号处理部分; 其中所述数模转换部分将所述卫星信号下变频到中间频带，以及耦合到所述数模转换部分的接收机，其中所述接收机接收所述模块的数模转换部分的输出， 中间频带，数字到模拟部分的输出在单个同轴电缆上。

公开(公告)号：US20110289522A1

公开(公告)日：2011-11-24

申请号：US13111249

申请日：2011-05-19

申请人： Romulo Pontual ,  John L. Norin ,  Robert G. Arsenault ,  Raynold M. Kahn ,  Sui-Ky Ringo Ling ,  Luke J. Crook ,  John D. Choi ,  Michelle L. Vagnati ,  David Eric Shanks ,  Steven Kasakitis ,  Eric J. Bennett ,  Kenny C. Chen ,  Stephen P. Dulac

发明人： Romulo Pontual ,  John L. Norin ,  Robert G. Arsenault ,  Raynold M. Kahn ,  Sui-Ky Ringo Ling ,  Luke J. Crook ,  John D. Choi ,  Michelle L. Vagnati ,  David Eric Shanks ,  Steven Kasakitis ,  Eric J. Bennett ,  Kenny C. Chen ,  Stephen P. Dulac

IPC分类号： H04N21/431 ,  H04N21/2543

CPC分类号： H04N21/23895 ,  H04N21/2543 ,  H04N21/4334 ,  H04N21/4335 ,  H04N21/4383 ,  H04N21/43853 ,  H04N21/4583 ,  H04N21/47214 ,  H04N21/482 ,  H04N21/84

摘要： A system and method for communicating content to a user device includes a head end that communicates metadata for a plurality of content including the content titles. The system also includes the user device that generates a screen display comprising the plurality of content titles from the metadata and generates a selection corresponding to a first content title from a user interface, the user device adds metadata for the first content title to a queue and displays the queue in a priority order on the screen display. The user device is tuned to receive content corresponding to the first content title and stores the content in a storage device.

摘要翻译： 用于向用户设备传送内容的系统和方法包括：头端，用于传送包含内容标题的多个内容的元数据。 该系统还包括从元数据生成包括多个内容标题的屏幕显示的用户设备，并从用户界面生成对应于第一内容标题的选择，用户设备将第一内容标题的元数据添加到队列， 以屏幕显示的优先级顺序显示队列。 调整用户设备以接收与第一内容标题对应的内容，并将内容存储在存储设备中。

公开(公告)号：US20100319035A1

公开(公告)日：2010-12-16

申请号：US12846699

申请日：2010-07-29

申请人： Dipak M. Shah ,  John L. Norin

发明人： Dipak M. Shah ,  John L. Norin

IPC分类号： H04N7/20 ,  H04B1/06

CPC分类号： H04N7/20 ,  H04H20/63 ,  H04H40/90 ,  H04N7/10

摘要： Systems for delivering satellite signals to multiple dwelling units (MDUs). A system in accordance with the present invention comprises an antenna for receiving the satellite signals, a conversion unit, coupled to the antenna, for stacking the satellite signals onto a single cable, a distribution unit, coupled to the conversion unit, wherein the distribution unit distributes the stacked satellite signal to a plurality of outputs, and at least one customer device, coupled to an output of the plurality of outputs, wherein each unit in the MDU uses the customer device to destack the stacked satellite signals for delivery to a receiver.

摘要翻译： 将卫星信号传送到多个住宅单元（MDU）的系统。 根据本发明的系统包括用于接收卫星信号的天线，耦合到天线的用于将卫星信号堆叠到单个电缆上的转换单元，耦合到转换单元的分配单元，其中分配单元 将所述堆叠的卫星信号分配到多个输出，以及耦合到所述多个输出的输出的至少一个客户设备，其中所述MDU中的每个单元使用所述客户设备来破坏所述堆叠的卫星信号以递送到接收机。

公开(公告)号：US06810527B1

公开(公告)日：2004-10-26

申请号：US09404167

申请日：1999-09-27

申请人： Adam P. Conrad ,  John L. Norin ,  Rômulo Pontual ,  Peter W. Smith ,  Jeffrey M. Wales

发明人： Adam P. Conrad ,  John L. Norin ,  Rômulo Pontual ,  Peter W. Smith ,  Jeffrey M. Wales

IPC分类号： H04N718

CPC分类号： H04N21/43853 ,  H04B7/18506 ,  H04N7/163 ,  H04N7/17309 ,  H04N7/20 ,  H04N21/2187 ,  H04N21/23424 ,  H04N21/23895 ,  H04N21/2668 ,  H04N21/41422 ,  H04N21/4334 ,  H04N21/44016 ,  H04N21/454 ,  H04N21/6143 ,  H04N21/6193 ,  H04N21/812

摘要： An end-to-end global distribution system that can produce and deliver live content as well as pre-recorded content and other content, to commercial passenger aircraft via a satellite and ground-based infrastructure. The content can include live television, pre-recorded content, advertisements as well as other content such as software applications, internet material, etc. The delivered content can be tailored based on distribution criteria such as airline, aircraft, origin and destination, flight number, cabin class, and others. Such system can be advertiser-supported and include targeted and distribution specific advertisements. Furthermore, access to the content can be controlled by various conditional access parameters at the server level, to various aircraft zones, and at the passenger level.

摘要翻译： 一种端到端的全球分销系统，可以通过卫星和地面基础设施向商业客机生产和提供实况内容以及预录内容和其他内容。 内容可以包括直播电视，预录内容，广告以及软件应用，互联网材料等其他内容。可以根据航空公司，飞机，起点和目的地，航班号等分配标准来定制交付的内容 ，小班班等。 这样的系统可以是广告客户支持的，并且包括针对性和分发特定的广告。 此外，可以通过服务器级别，各种飞行器区域和乘客级别的各种条件访问参数来控制对内容的访问。

公开(公告)号：US06233433B1

公开(公告)日：2001-05-15

申请号：US09244576

申请日：1999-02-04

申请人： John L. Norin

发明人： John L. Norin

IPC分类号： H04B1700

CPC分类号： H04B7/18519 ,  H04B17/309

摘要： The new satellite communications repeater test method allows multiple transponders to be tested from a single ground test station. The satellite's receive antenna is aligned with the ground station antenna and uplink test signals are transmitted to the satellite. The uplink test signal is converted to a corresponding downlink signal which is distributed to the transponders fed by the receive antenna. Prior to transmission from the satellite, the amplified downlink signals are sampled and combined and/or switched into a single path having a frequency spectrum which includes the frequency bands of the sampled downlink signals. The combined signal is transmitted to the ground test station from a wide angle transmit antenna. The received downlink signals are measured and stored for later processing to validate the operational characteristics of the transponders. In an alternative embodiment, the sampling and combining matrix includes switches for selecting the sampled signals to be combined.

摘要翻译： 新的卫星通信中继器测试方法允许从单个地面测试台测试多个转发器。 卫星的接收天线与地面站天线对准，上行测试信号传输到卫星。 上行链路测试信号被转换为分配给由接收天线馈送的应答器的相应下行链路信号。 在从卫星传输之前，将放大的下行链路信号进行采样并组合和/或切换成具有包括采样的下行链路信号的频带的频谱的单个路径。 组合信号从广角发射天线发射到地面测试台。 接收到的下行链路信号被测量和存储用于后续处理以验证应答器的操作特性。 在替代实施例中，采样和组合矩阵包括用于选择要组合的采样信号的开关。

公开(公告)号：US20180176649A1

公开(公告)日：2018-06-21

申请号：US12502185

申请日：2009-07-13

申请人： John L. Norin

发明人： John L. Norin

IPC分类号： H04N21/472

CPC分类号： H04N21/47202 ,  H04H40/00 ,  H04N21/2747 ,  H04N21/8355

摘要： Systems and methods for combining a satellite broadcast system with a network. A system in accordance with one or more embodiments of the present invention comprises a plurality of satellite receivers, wherein each of the satellite receivers is coupled to both the satellite broadcast system and the network, wherein a first receiver in the plurality of satellite receivers receives data from at least a second receiver in the plurality of receivers via the network.