# US 2019/0173571 A1 · Systems and methods for beacon detection infrastructures

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- Number: US 2019/0173571 A1
- Document ID: US20190173571A1
- Status: Published application
- Kind: A1
- Application number: 16/264,345
- Filed: 2019-01-31
- Published: 2019-06-06
- Earliest claimed: 2016-11-10
- Assignees: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.
- Applicants: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc
- Inventors: Peter Paul Smyth; Lin Cheng; Jim O'Connor; Eric Winkelman; Thomas H. Williams; Belal Hamzeh; Steve Arendt
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20190173571A1

## CPC

- H04B 7/18519: {Operations control, administration or maintenance}
- H04B 7/0413: MIMO systems
- H04B 7/18517: {Transmission equipment in earth stations}
- H04B 17/3913: {Predictive models, e.g. based on neural network models}
- H04W 16/14: Spectrum sharing arrangements {between different networks}
- H04W 16/20: for indoor coverage or short range network deployment
- H04W 24/08: Testing, {supervising or monitoring} using real traffic
- H04W 52/242: {taking into account path loss}
- H04B 7/0617: {for beam forming}
- H04B: TRANSMISSION
- H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72)

## Abstract

A communication system includes an earth station configured to receive a downlink transmission from a satellite and transmit an uplink transmission to the satellite. The communication system further includes a server in operable communication with the earth station, a beacon detector in operable communication with the server, an access point configured to operate within a proximity of the earth station, and a beacon transmitter disposed within close proximity to the access point. The beacon transmitter is configured to transmit a beacon signal to one or more of the server and the beacon detector. The beacon signal uniquely identifies the access point. The server is configured to implement a measurement-based protection scheme with respect to at least one of the downlink transmission and the uplink transmission.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A communication system, comprising:
an earth station configured to receive a downlink transmission from a satellite and transmit an uplink transmission to the satellite;
a server in operable communication with the earth station;
a beacon detector in operable communication with the server;
an access point configured to operate within a proximity of the earth station; and
a beacon transmitter disposed within close proximity to the access point, the beacon transmitter configured to transmit, to one or more of the server and the beacon detector, a beacon signal that uniquely identifies the access point,
wherein the server is configured to implement a measurement-based protection scheme with respect to both of the downlink transmission and the uplink transmission.