US 6,185,409 B2Granted

Network engineering/systems engineering system for mobile satellite communication system

AssigneeAMSC Subsidiary Corporation

InventorsMichael E. Threadgill, ShihChao Lin

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Abstract

A mobile satellite system includes at least one satellite and at least one network engineering/systems engineering (NE/SE) system. The NE/SE system performs at least one of the processes of comparing expected traffic loads with capability and availability of space and ground resources in the mobile satellite system; formulating tactical plans to maximize available resources of the at least one satellite, and producing frequency plans for different geographical regions; performing the processes of defining contingency plans for failure situations, including failure in the at least one satellite or a ground-based equipment outage; configuring the mobile satellite system including logical resources and physical components; and configuring communication paths to external organizations operatively connected to the mobile satellite system.

Claims35

Dependent claims

A mobile satellite system having at least one satellite therein in operative communication with at least one mobile earth terminal (MET), comprising:

at least one network operations controller (NOC) managing and controlling the resources of the mobile satellite system including the at least one satellite;
at least one feederlink earth station (FES) managing communications links between the MET, at least one public switched telephone network (PSTN), and optionally at least one private network once a communication channel is established with the MET, and performing call management therefor;
at least one network control center (NCC), operatively connected to said FES and said NOC, said NCC managing real time allocation of communication channels between the MET and said FES in at least one circuit pool;
and
at least one network engineering/systems engineering (NE/SE) system operatively connected to said NOC, said NE/SE system performing the following processes:
comparing expected traffic loads for mobile satellite system including the at least one satellite with capability and availability of space and ground resources;
formulating tactical plans to maximize available resources of the at least one satellite;
producing frequency plans for different geographical regions;
configuring the mobile satellite system including resources and components generating configurations, the configurations designed to expand the mobile satellite system capacity for increases in traffic demand, while also supporting new features and services of the mobile satellite system;
and
configuring communication paths to external organizations operatively connected to the mobile satellite system.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 09/007,172Filed 14 Jan 1998 · continuation in part
Priority: 30 Nov 1995
Granted: 6 Feb 2001
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification4 codes

H04B 7/18506
Airborne stations: communications with or from aircraft, i.e. aeronautical mobile service
H04B 7/18508
Communications with or from aircraft, i.e. aeronautical mobile service: with satellite system used as relay, i.e. aeronautical mobile satellite…
H04B 7/18539
Satellite systems for providing telephony service to a mobile station, i.e. mobile satellite service: arrangements for managing radio, resources,…
H04B
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Application60/007,804Us provisional application · filed 30 Nov 1995
Application08/601,749Parent of this continuation · filed 15 Feb 1996
Application08/931,622Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 16 Sep 1997
Application08/931,622Parent of this continuation
US 5,713,075 AParent of this continuation
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