Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Dynamic satellite beam switching
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Application No.: US16746015Application Date: 2020-01-17
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Publication No.: US10938472B2Publication Date: 2021-03-02
- Inventor: David J. Montsma , Erhard G. Trudrung , Paul J. Powers , Marc A. Nesheim
- Applicant: GOGO BUSINESS AVIATION LLC
- Applicant Address: US CO Broomfield
- Assignee: GOGO BUSINESS AVIATION LLC
- Current Assignee: GOGO BUSINESS AVIATION LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CO Broomfield
- Agency: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP
- Agent Randall G. Rueth
- Main IPC: H04B7/185
- IPC: H04B7/185 ; H04W64/00 ; H04B7/204

Abstract:
A dynamic satellite map updating system measures geographic position and travel information of in-flight aircraft in a fleet of aircraft equipped to establish in-flight connectivity services from a plurality of satellite beams. The in-flight aircraft include an on-board satellite map program with satellite map parameters to indicate which satellite beam of a group of available satellite beams is the most desirable based on the in-flight aircraft's geographic location. The system selects in-flight aircraft, determines updated satellite map parameters for the selected aircraft, and transmits the updated satellite map parameters to the aircraft to assemble new satellite map programs to relieve wireless data outage conditions on one or more of the satellite beams. The dynamic satellite updating system may transmit the updated satellite map parameters over an existing satellite data connection to make up-to-date adjustments to the communications load among the group of available satellite beams.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200162150A1 DYNAMIC SATELLITE BEAM SWITCHING Public/Granted day:2020-05-21
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