COMMUNICATION PERFORMANCE MAPPING FOR PHASED ARRAY ANTENNAS

    公开(公告)号:WO2023278119A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-05

    申请号:PCT/US2022/032880

    申请日:2022-06-09

    申请人: VIASAT, INC.

    摘要: A communications system may be configured to consider directional beam characteristics in the operation of a phased array antenna, such as during installation of, positioning or orienting of, or communications using a phased array antenna· In some examples, a communication system may be configured to generate a communications performance map for evaluating or characterizing a local communications environment relative to directional characteristics of a phased array antenna, and such a performance map may be used to establish various boundaries or directional thresholds for performing communications operations. In some examples, directional characteristics of a phased array antenna, or a communications performance map thereof, may be used for evaluating when to reposition or reorient the phased array antenna, such as when the phased array antenna is provided with a generally fixed orientation by an installer, or when the phased array antenna leverages a combination of physical positioning and electronic beamforming.

    REDUCING NETWORK BANDWIDTH CONSUMPTION OF REAL-TIME BROADCASTS USING GENERICALLY ENCODED MEDIA OBJECTS

    公开(公告)号:WO2023069289A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-04-27

    申请号:PCT/US2022/046483

    申请日:2022-10-12

    申请人: VIASAT, INC.

    摘要: Described herein are ways to reduce bandwidth use for real-time broadcasts between an Internet Service Provider (ISP) and its subscribers by re-encoding audiovisual data streams to have a generic encoding that can be viewed by subscribers of different content providers. A system can determine that a plurality of subscribers is watching the same live event and can multicast the generic encoding of the live event to the plurality of subscribers, even where individual subscribers stream the live event from different content providers. This can eliminate the need for streaming multiple versions of the same live event from different content providers to subscribers. The systems can generically encode an audiovisual data stream of a live event to generate a single audiovisual data stream for the live event that is multicast to subscribers watching the same live event.

    REDUCING NETWORK BANDWIDTH CONSUMPTION USING GENERICALLY ENCODED MEDIA OBJECTS

    公开(公告)号:WO2023069288A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-04-27

    申请号:PCT/US2022/046481

    申请日:2022-10-12

    申请人: VIASAT, INC.

    摘要: Described herein are ways to advantageously reduce bandwidth use between an internet service provider and its subscribers by re-encoding media objects to have a generic encoding that can be cached at subscriber devices. When a subscriber makes an authorized request for a media object from a content provider, a cached version of the generically encoded media object may be played by the subscriber even if the subscriber is not a customer of the content provider that originally provided the media object. This can eliminate the need for streaming a new copy of the media object from the content provider. The disclosed systems are configured to identify when differently-encoded media objects represent the same media object so that subscribers can play cached media objects rather than requiring each media object be streamed from different content providers.

    TECHNIQUES FOR PHASED ARRAY TERMINAL ANTENNA INSTALLATION

    公开(公告)号:WO2023278120A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-05

    申请号:PCT/US2022/032881

    申请日:2022-06-09

    申请人: VIASAT, INC.

    摘要: A communications system may be configured to consider directional beam characteristics in the operation of a phased array antenna, such as during installation of, positioning or orienting of, or communications using a phased array antenna· In some examples, a communication system may be configured to generate a communications performance map for evaluating or characterizing a local communications environment relative to directional characteristics of a phased array antenna, and such a performance map may be used to establish various boundaries or directional thresholds for performing communications operations. In some examples, directional characteristics of a phased array antenna, or a communications performance map thereof, may be used for evaluating when to reposition or reorient the phased array antenna, such as when the phased array antenna is provided with a generally fixed orientation by an installer, or when the phased array antenna leverages a combination of physical positioning and electronic beamforming.

    MULTI-BAND SATELLITE COMMUNICATION FADE MITIGATION
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    发明申请
    MULTI-BAND SATELLITE COMMUNICATION FADE MITIGATION 审中-公开
    多通道卫星通信减速

    公开(公告)号:WO2010144918A2

    公开(公告)日:2010-12-16

    申请号:PCT/US2010/038548

    申请日:2010-06-14

    IPC分类号: H04B7/185 H04W84/06

    CPC分类号: H04B7/2041 H04B7/18539

    摘要: One or more satellites may generate multiple beams. The beams may facilitate communication over multiple communication frequency bands including a relatively high capacity frequency band and a relatively fade-resilient frequency band. The beams may overlap. User terminals and/or gateways in a beam intersection may select from among the multiple communication frequency bands to communication with the satellite(s). Responsive to detection of rain fade, some of the user terminals and/or gateways may be instructed to use the relatively fade-resilient frequency band. The multiple communication frequency bands may be assigned to the user terminals and/or gateways so as to maximize total system capacity.

    摘要翻译: 一个或多个卫星可以产生多个波束。 波束可以促进包括相对较高容量的频带和相对衰落的频带的多个通信频带的通信。 梁可能重叠。 波束交叉点中的用户终端和/或网关可以从多个通信频带中选择与卫星的通信。 响应于雨褪色的检测,可以指示一些用户终端和/或网关使用相对衰落的频带。 可以将多个通信频带分配给用户终端和/或网关,以便最大化总系统容量。