US 2019/0379448 A1 · Dynamic Receiver

Abstract

A receiver is presented, such that the receiver may be configured to receive transmissions in accordance with a continuous waveform and to relock quickly on a received transmission when the transmitter is switched or a change in the waveform parameters is made. The receiver may be configured to support reception of a shared channel and/or of a channel allocated for SCPC usage and may be modified while used (e.g., dynamic SCPC). In addition, a satellite communication system is presented, the satellite communication system comprising at least one receiver in accordance with the above-described receiver. The satellite communication system may be configured to utilize the receiver's characteristics for at least the purpose of achieving a highly efficient return link channel.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A receiver, comprising:

a demodulator configured to receive a transmission comprising a sequence of frames, and to relock on the transmission in response to receiving a relock signal to relock on the transmission;
a storage configured to store a plurality of channel profiles and to transfer any of the plurality of channel profiles to the demodulator in response to receiving a load profile signal;
and
a controller configured to provide the load profile signal to the storage and provide, responsive to receiving a trigger, the relock signal to the demodulator.

1 more element

A satellite communication system comprising a plurality of terminals and a hub, wherein the hub comprises:

a shared medium manager configured to assign a return link (RL) channel to multiple terminals of the plurality of terminals;
and
a receiver configured to receive a transmission over the RL channel, wherein the receiver comprises:
a demodulator configured to receive the transmission comprising a sequence of frames, and to relock on the transmission in response to receiving a relock signal to relock on the transmission;
a storage configured to store a plurality of channel profiles and to transfer any of the plurality of channel profiles to the demodulator in response to receiving a load profile signal;
and
a controller configured to provide the load profile signal to the storage and provide, responsive to receiving a trigger, the relock signal to the demodulator.

4 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

16/432,332Filed 5 Jun 2019

Priority

6 Jun 2018

Published

12 Dec 2019

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

H04B 7/18582
Satellite systems for providing broadband data service to individual earth stations: arrangements for data linking, i.e. for data framing, for…
H04L 1/0036
Systems modifying transmission characteristics according to link quality, e.g. power backoff: arrangements specific to the receiver
H04L 27/0008
Modulated-carrier systems: arrangements for allowing a transmitter or receiver to use more than one type of modulation
H04L 2027/0024
Carrier regulation: at the receiver end

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Abstract

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