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Telecommunications > Carrier Wave Repeater Or Relay System (i.e., Retransmission Of Same Information) > Portable Or Mobile Repeater > Space Satellite Space SatelliteSpace Satellite patent applications listed are from June 2005 to current and include Date, Patent Application Number, Patent Title, Patent Abstract summary and are linked to the corresponding patent application page.04/12/07 - 20070082609 - Satellites and signal distribution methods and off-set pattern for sending signals The invention relates to methods, systems, and satellites that employ an off-set pattern of spot-beams to transmit signals or television signals over a desired area of the earth. In one example, a heavily populated metropolitan area in the continental United States is covered by at least two patterns of spot-beams, ... 04/05/07 - 20070077884 - Communications apparatus and method A method of reusing frequency bands between base stations of a terrestrial mobile communications network and a satellite communications network, comprising allocating the frequency bands using integrated resource management and other mitigation techniques in a such a way as to minimise interference between both the systems, thus making optimum usage ... 03/29/07 - 20070072545 - Space-based network architectures for satellite radiotelephone systems A space-based network for a satellite radiotelephone system includes at least one receive-only satellite and at least one transmit satellite. The transmit satellite can be a transmit-only satellite or a transmit and receive satellite. The receive-only satellite(s) are configured to receive wireless communications from a radiotelephone at a location over ... 02/08/07 - 20070032191 - Method and apparatus for selectively operating satellites in tundra orbits A satellite system provides geosynchronous satellites in elliptical orbits in respective elliptical orbital planes separated by 120 degrees. The satellites traverse a common figure-eight ground track comprising northern and southern loops. The satellites are controllably switched to operate the satellite currently traversing the northern loop to deliver a selected signal ... 02/08/07 - 20070032190 - Broad distribution bi-directional user terminal at configurable broadcast frequencies The invention proposes an upgradable product capable of covering two sub-bands. An outdoor unit comprises, on the uplink, a switchable oscillator coupled to a waveguide featuring a removable cover enabling the said waveguide to be converted into a band rejector filter. ... 01/25/07 - 20070021060 - Integrated or autonomous system and method of satellite-terrestrial frequency reuse using signal attenuation and/or blockage, dynamic assignment of frequencies and/or hysteresis A cellular communications system comprising a space based system comprising a first set of cells, and a ground based system comprising a second set of cells The space and ground systems can optionally function substantially autonomously, with each using spectrum from at least one predetermined frequency band. ... 01/25/07 - 20070021059 - Frequency-dependent filtering for wireless communications transmitters A method of transmitting information in a wireless communications system can be provided by selectively applying filtering to transmission of a carrier signal of a first band of frequencies of a wireless communications system based on a frequency separation distance between a frequency content of the carrier signal and a ... 01/18/07 - 20070015460 - Systems and methods of waveform and/or information splitting for wireless transmission of information to one or more radioterminals over a plurality of transmission paths and/or system elements Methods of transmitting an information signal in a satellite communications system include splitting the information signal into a first signal component and a second signal component, transmitting the first signal component to a first system element of the satellite communications system, transmitting the second signal component to a second system ... 12/28/06 - 20060292981 - Satellite beacon for faster sky-search and pointing error identification An apparatus for determining the identity of a first detected satellite and to determine a second scan position for a satellite of interest based in part on the identity of the first detected satellite is disclosed. In one example the identity of the first detected satellite may be determined based ... 12/07/06 - 20060276128 - System and method for implementing a constellation of non-geostationary satellites that does not interfere with the geostationary satellite ring Provided is an improved system and method for implementing a constellation of satellites in inclined elliptical orbits. The satellites are operated during the portion of their orbits near apogee to emulate the characteristics of geostationary satellites. The orbits are configured to form a number of closely spaced repeating ground tracks ... 12/07/06 - 20060276127 - System for managing call handoffs between an aircraft and multiple cell sites The handoff management system maximizes the communications capacity available from terrestrial air-to-ground cellular networks, while also integrating communications capabilities from satellite air-to-ground cellular networks and terrestrial cellular communications networks. The communications capacity is maximized by dynamically allocating communications from the aircraft over multiple communications channels to multiple cells of the ... 11/23/06 - 20060264173 - Aircraft cabin personal telephone microcell A telecommunication system includes an interface device on board an aircraft that interfaces with a wireless phone of a user inside the aircraft and with a wireless bearer system, and a controller that controls the interface device to maintain RF emissions of the wireless phone below a predetermined level above ... 11/09/06 - 20060252368 - Staggered sectorization for terrestrial reuse of satellite frequencies A satellite radiotelephone system can include a space-based component and a plurality of ancillary terrestrial components. The space-based component is configured to provide wireless radiotelephone communications over a satellite radiotelephone frequency band. The plurality of ancillary terrestrial components are configured to terrestrially reuse at least one of the satellite radiotelephone ... 11/02/06 - 20060246838 - Systems and methods for inter-system sharing of satellite communications frequencies within a common footprint Two satellite communications systems can use the same frequency or frequencies in geographically overlapping footprints, without creating undue interference in a given system that is caused by the same frequency signal(s) that is/are used by the other system. In particular, an aggregate Effective Isotropic Radiated Power (EIRP) of the radioterminals ... 10/26/06 - 20060240767 - Geosynchronous satellite constellation A satellite communications system is described for increasing capacity through spectrum reuse by multiple satellites. The system includes a constellation of satellites traveling in a geosynchronous orbit, where the geosynchronous orbit defines a satellite track. The satellite track of the constellation overlaps a geostationary orbital location occupied by a legacy ... 09/21/06 - 20060211371 - Coordinated satellite-terrestrial frequency reuse A system and method of operation for efficiently reusing and/or sharing at least a portion of the frequency spectrum between a first satellite spot beam and a second satellite spot beam, and/or an underlay terrestrial network associated with a second satellite spot beam. The spectrum is efficiently reused and/or shared ... 09/14/06 - 20060205347 - Satellite communications systems and methods with distributed and/or centralized architecture including ground-based beam forming A space-based component (SBC) of a communications system includes a service link subsystem including a plurality of service link antenna elements configured to provide service links with radioterminals and a feeder link subsystem configured to provide respective feeder links to/from respective processing facilities. The SBC further includes a channelizer configured ... 09/14/06 - 20060205346 - Reducing interference in a wireless communications signal in the frequency domain Methods of reducing interference in wireless communications in a communications system are provided. A wireless communications signal is received within a frequency band. The wireless communications signal includes a desired component and an undesired interference component. The interference component may be caused by, for example, communications by another component of ... 09/14/06 - 20060205345 - Air radio system In an air radio system for performing voice communications among a first aircraft provided with an analog radio, a second aircraft provided with a digital radio, and a ground station, the ground station includes a first communication station for performing radio communications of an analog voice with the first aircraft, ... 08/24/06 - 20060189275 - Satellites using inter-satellite links to create indirect feeder link paths Methods of providing a feeder link between a first substantially geo-stationary satellite and a satellite gateway include establishing a communications link between the satellite gateway and a second substantially geo-stationary satellite, establishing an inter-satellite communications link between the first substantially geo-stationary satellite and the second substantially geo-stationary satellite, and communicating ... 08/24/06 - 20060189274 - Satellite communications systems and methods using diverse polarizations Communications occur between a satellite and respective first and second classes of terminals using substantially different polarizations. The first class of terminals may include fixed and/or vehicle-based terminals, and the second class of terminals may include handheld terminals. The second class of terminals may include terminals configured to preferentially receive ... 08/24/06 - 20060189273 - Systems, methods and devices for a ku/ka band transmitter-receiver A Ka/Ku-band transmitter-receiver comprises a tri-band feed of a Ka-band transceiver, in conjunction with an array of phase combined patch receiving, antennas that operate at the Ku-band frequencies. ... 08/10/06 - 20060178107 - Positioning system, terminal device, control method of terminal device, control program of terminal device, and computer readable recording medium recording control program of terminal device A communication base station has: base station position information storing means; signal electric wave for communication with sending time information generating means; satellite time information generating means; time difference information generating means for generating the time difference information indicating a time difference between the sending time and the satellite time ... 07/13/06 - 20060154601 - Apparatus and method for providing automatically generated personalized web content for mobile users A system is provided for creating a personalized user interface on a mobile platform to deliver personalized information content to a personal electronic device (PED) of a user on-board the mobile platform. The system includes at least one portal operable to communicate with the user's PED and a first database ... 06/29/06 - 20060141930 - Aircraft in-flight entertainment system including low power transceivers and associated methods An aircraft in-flight entertainment (IFE) system includes an antenna, an external communications transceiver connected to the antenna for communicating external the aircraft, and a plurality of seat electronic boxes (SEBs) spaced throughout the aircraft for distributing entertainment related data. A distribution network is connected to the SEBs and to the ... 06/22/06 - 20060135060 - Methods and systems for configuring satellite antenna cell patterns in response to terrestrial use of satellite frequencies Space-based wireless radiotelephone communications are provided in a satellite footprint over a satellite radiotelephone frequency band. The satellite footprint is divided into satellite cells in which satellite radiotelephone frequencies of the satellite radiotelephone frequency band are spatially reused. At least one of the satellite radiotelephone frequencies that is assigned to ... 06/08/06 - 20060121848 - Smaller aperture antenna for multiple spot beam satellites This disclosure describes a method to generate large numbers of spot beams for multiple-beam satellite systems using smaller apertures. This is done by dividing the basic spot beam that has 3 to 4 dB of gain drop within the beam into a number of smaller 1-dB sub-beams. This has the ... 05/25/06 - 20060111040 - Wireless tank monitoring system having satellite communications capability A wireless tank monitoring system for remotely monitoring a plurality of storage tanks is provided. This tank monitoring system utilizes wireless communication from individual tank level monitors to a single SatComm Gateway. The SatComm Gateway then utilizes a low-Earth Orbit satellite constellation to transmit information to a central data collection ... 05/18/06 - 20060105708 - Communication system, communication receiving device and communication terminal in the system An information providing method and apparatus in which a radio wave signal is transmitted from plural artificial satellites and received at plural receiving equipment located within a pre-defined service area, and receiving within a pre-defined range of operational elevation angle by a receiving antenna. The plural artificial satellites are viewable ... 05/18/06 - 20060105707 - Satellite communications systems, components and methods for operating shared satellite gateways A shared satellite gateway can be configured to process at least first and second communications signals associated with respective at least first and second space-based components. The at least first and second communications signals are provided to/from the shared satellite gateway by respective at least first and second service links ... 05/18/06 - 20060105706 - System and method incorporating adaptive and reconfigurable cells A system and method by which specialized components (tenants) are mounted to an assembly comprising a plurality of modular units. Each modular unit has one or more interface connecting locations for one or more of a power connection, a thermal connection and data base connection, along with one or more ... 05/11/06 - 20060099909 - Mobile communication terminal with global positioning system A mobile communication terminal with a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver is disclosed. The mobile communication terminal comprises an antenna configured to receive a radio telecommunication signal for terrestrial communication and a GPS signal, an antenna matching circuit coupled to the antenna for impedance matching of the GPS signal, a ... 04/13/06 - 20060079176 - Apparatus and method for reusing satellite broadcast spectrum for terrestrially broadcast signals A satellite receiving antenna at a user location receives satellite signals at a first frequency from a satellite. The satellite signals travel along a satellite signal route encompassed within an aperture of the satellite receiving antenna. A terrestrial transmitter transmits signals at the first frequency along a wireless transmission route ... 03/02/06 - 20060046649 - Targeted messaging for mobile vehicles using satellite-radio broadcasts A targeted message is sent to a mobile vehicle using a satellite broadcast system. A satellite broadcast message including a vehicle identification tag and the targeted message is received at the mobile vehicle. A determination is made on whether to play the targeted message at the mobile vehicle based on ... 03/02/06 - 20060046648 - System for concurrent mobile two-way data communications and tv reception A low profile mobile in-motion antenna and transmit/receive terminal system for two-way “VSAT” type satellite communication using FSS service, preferably in Ku band, supporting at the same time TV signal reception from the same satellite or a separate DBS satellite located at the same or nearby geo-stationary orbital position. ... 02/23/06 - 20060040613 - Satellite-band spectrum utilization for reduced or minimum interference A first and/or a second communications system may provide communications service over a geographic area. A method of operating the first and/or the second communications systems may include generating a measure of aggregate interference reaching a satellite of the second communications system substantially from devices of the first communications system. ... 02/23/06 - 20060040612 - Aeronautical broadcast and communication system A method and system for a plurality of airplanes in flight to receive from and send to a plurality of ground stations broadcast and communication signals through a single or a plurality of geostationary satellites, wherein at least the mobile link between said airplanes and said satellite, uplink or downlink, ... 02/09/06 - 20060030261 - Business model of the co-locating scheme of low earth orbit (leo) and geostationary (geo) satellite systems A method of incrementally increasing a revenue stream generated by an incrementally built satellite communication system comprising the following steps: (A) planning an initial constellation phase of the satellite communication system to cover an initial predetermined coverage area; (B) building the initial number of satellites for the initial constellation phase ... 02/02/06 - 20060025073 - Mobile phone combined with satellite radio capability A wireless telephony network provides satellite radio program information and content, in addition to conventional wireless telephony services, to eligible mobile stations of the wireless telephony network. The wireless telephony network receives satellite radio programming from a satellite radio service network, establishes one or more bearer channels (e.g., conventional voice ... 01/12/06 - 20060009152 - Method and application for automatic tracking of mobile devices for computer network processor systems A method and system is provided for tracking mobile devices combining packet processing technology with Global Positioning System (GPS) technology. A central network system comprising a packet processing subsystem receives transmitted GPS location data from a mobile device transmitting GPS location data, wherein the packet processing subsystem uses a table ... 01/05/06 - 20060003699 - Managing searcher and tracker resources in a wireless communication device A Wireless Communication Device (WCD) includes multiple fingers that track one or more tracked transponder beams. Each tracked beam is from a respective tracked transponder. The WCD determines a tracked-beam searcher energy for each of the tracked beams, and an untracked-beam searcher energy for each of one or more untracked ... 01/05/06 - 20060003698 - Sub-orbital, high altitude communications system A sub-orbital, high altitude communications system that has at least two ground stations and at least one high altitude relay station. Each of the ground stations includes apparatus for sending and receiving telecommunications signals. The relay stations include apparatus for receiving and sending telecommunications signals from and to the ground ... 12/22/05 - 20050282493 - Satellite based data transfer and delivery system A high speed data transfer system includes a WAU (201) which is utilized to provide high speed data access to satellite transferred data. The system is configured such that a plurality of data utilization devices (205) may access the high speed data via wireless links to the WAU (201). Advantageously, ... 12/22/05 - 20050282492 - Wireless phone concept A wireless base phone that connects to a wireless service provider and to associated satellite (auxiliary) phones is provided. The wireless base phone negates having to have the traditional phone at home or in a business that connects to traditional outside wired telecommunications network (PSTN). The consumer can save on ... 12/08/05 - 20050272369 - Coordinated satellite-terrestrial frequency reuse A system and method of operation for efficiently reusing and/or sharing at least a portion of the frequency spectrum between a first satellite spot beam and a second satellite spot beam, and/or an underlay terrestrial network associated with a second satellite spot beam. The spectrum is efficiently reused and/or shared ... 12/08/05 - 20050272368 - Satellite radio warning system and method A system and method for distributing messages to a plurality of satellite receivers comprising sending a message with geographic target area coding or information via satellite or a ground repeater to at least one satellite receiving device equipped with geographic-aware information. The satellite receiving device thereafter utilizes its geographic aware ... 11/24/05 - 20050260948 - Communications apparatus and method A method of reusing frequency bands between base stations of a terrestrial mobile communications network and a satellite communications network, comprising allocating the frequency bands using integrated resource management and other mitigation techniques in a such a way as to minimise interference between both the systems, thus making optimum usage ... 11/24/05 - 20050260947 - Satellite communications systems and methods using radiotelephone location-based beamforming A processor for use in a satellite communications system includes a selector that is configured to select a subset of a plurality of spatially diverse satellite signals based upon a location of a radioterminal. The processor further includes a signal processor that is configured to detect a return-link transmission from ... 11/10/05 - 20050250441 - Satellite receiving method and system Satellite receiving system and method for adjusting a satellite receiving system (100) including an input (113); a first oscillator (106) with theoretical frequency (FOSC1) and real frequency (FOSC1′), a first frequency mixer (105) delivering a signal at a first intermediate frequency (F2), a second oscillator (302) with frequency (FOSC2), a ... 11/10/05 - 20050250440 - Systems and methods for monitoring and tracking The present invention generally relates to systems, methods and applications utilizing the convergence of any combination of the following three technologies: wireless positioning or localization technology, wireless communications technology and sensor technology. In particular, certain embodiments of the present invention relate to a remote device that includes a sensor for ... 11/03/05 - 20050245192 - Radiotelephones and operating methods that use a single radio frequency chain and a single baseband processor for space-based and terrestrial communications A radiotelephone includes a single radio frequency chain and a single baseband processor that is connected thereto. The single radio frequency chain and the single baseband processor are configured to communicate with a space-based system using frequencies of a satellite band and an air interface, and to communicate with a ... 10/27/05 - 20050239404 - Satellite/hands-free interlock systems and/or companion devices for radioterminals and related methods A radioterminal may include a transceiver, a hand-held interface coupled to the transceiver, and an interlock coupled to the transceiver. The transceiver may be configured to transmit and receive wireless communications, and the transceiver may be further configured to transmit high power communications at a high maximum power and/or EIRP ... 10/27/05 - 20050239403 - Systems and methods with different utilization of satellite frequency bands by a space-based network and an ancillary terrestrial network A radioterminal communications system includes an ancillary terrestrial component configured to receive from at least some of a plurality of radioterminals using frequencies from a first satellite frequency band (e.g., an L-band) and to transmit to at least some of the plurality of radioterminals using frequencies from a second satellite ... 10/06/05 - 20050221757 - Systems and methods for reducing satellite feeder link bandwidth/carriers in cellular satellite systems Information content is nonidentically mapped between service link carriers and feeder link carriers at a cellular satellite. A reduced number of satellite feeder link carriers compared to the number of satellite service link carriers and/or a reduced total bandwidth of the satellite feeder link carriers compared to the satellite service ... 10/06/05 - 20050221756 - Satellite broadcast receiving and distribution system A satellite signal distribution system distributes signal blocks of two different received frequencies and polarities simultaneously over the same cable. The satellite system includes a satellite dish or antenna that receives signals. These received signals are transmitted to a block frequency converter that enables the different frequency polarity blocks to ... 09/22/05 - 20050208890 - Systems and methods for monitoring selected terrestrially used satellite frequency signals to reduce potential interference A satellite radiotelephone frequency band can be reused terrestrially by an ancillary terrestrial network even within the same satellite cell, using interference reduction/cancellation techniques. An interference reducer is responsive to a space-based component and to an ancillary terrestrial network. The interference reducer is configured to reduce interference in wireless communications ... 09/08/05 - 20050197060 - Scalable multi-satellite spot beam architecture A scalable multi-satellite spot-beam network architecture that employs a plurality (N) of relatively small (low power) active spot beam satellites and a number (R) of spare satellites, all of which are substantially similar in design, has been described. The plurality of satellites is substantially collocated at a given orbital location ... 08/18/05 - 20050181723 - Mobile wireless local area network and related methods A wireless local area network adapted for use by users traveling on a mobile platform such as an aircraft. The network includes a network server located on the mobile platform, and at least one network access point connected to the server and accessible wirelessly by at least one user portable ... 07/28/05 - 20050164631 - Circuit for supplying ear-microphone bias power for ear/microphone in mobile terminal Disclosed is a circuit for supplying ear-microphone bias power in a mobile terminal that reduces power consumption due to unnecessary ear-microphone bias when the terminal is in a sleep mode with an ear/microphone being connected to the terminal through an ear-microphone line. The ear/microphone has a call switch connected to ... 07/14/05 - 20050153654 - Method and system for leaving a communication channel in a wireless communications system A method and system for reliably returning to a traffic channel in a wireless communications system having at least one communication channel, after performing E911 GPS or other types of signal measurements is provided. A communications link is established using a device in the communications system configured to establish communication ... 06/30/05 - 20050143004 - Method to optimize hierarchical modulation for a diversity system The present invention involves a method for transmitting data having primary and secondary data. A first transmit signal is transmitted from a first communication satellite wherein the first transmit signal is produced when the transmitter modulates the primary and secondary data on a first carrier wave associated with the first ... 06/30/05 - 20050143003 - Method for controlling data transmission rate in interactive satellite communication system A method for controlling data transmission rate in order to save waste of resources due to Non-Line Of Sight (NLOS) region when a mobile terminal passes through the NLOS region in an interactive satellite communication system is disclosed. The method includes the steps of setting at least one threshold; at ... 06/23/05 - 20050136836 - Additional intra-and/or inter-system interference reducing systems and methods for satellite communications systems First radio signals are received by a first satellite, the received first radio signals including a desired satellite uplink signal transmitted from a first source using a frequency assigned to the first source and an interfering signal transmitted from a second source using the frequency assigned to the first source. ... 06/16/05 - 20050130590 - Distributed data collection of satellite data A shuttle message that is passed between GPS enabled devices that is processed at either a bit level or word level with data that the GPS enable device has already gathered and augmenting the positioning data stored at GPS enabled devices by retrieving data contained in the shuttle message. The ... 06/09/05 - 20050124291 - Satellite system for vessel identification A system for communicating data among a plurality of ships is disclosed. The system comprises means for sending an inbound message from one of said plurality ships (501), via at least one geostationary satellite (503) and base station (505) to a control centre (507). Spatial information obtained from the control ... 06/02/05 - 20050118948 - Systems and methods for terrestrial reuse of cellular satellite frequency spectrum in a time-division duplex and/or frequency-division duplex mode A space-based component, such as a satellite, is configured to receive wireless communications from radiotelephones in a satellite footprint over an uplink satellite radiotelephone frequency, and to transmit wireless communications to the radiotelephones over a downlink radiotelephone frequency. An ancillary terrestrial network, that may include one or more ancillary terrestrial ... 06/02/05 - 20050118947 - Mixed reuse of feeder link and user link bandwith An apparatus and method for a wireless communication system in which a forward/uplink portion and a return/uplink portion are assigned within an available frequency bandwidth is disclosed. More particularly, a service area is divided into multiple regions. The assignment of the forward/uplink portion of the return/uplink portion is shuffled in ... ### FreshPatents.com Support |