US 11,870,544 B2
Beam splitting hand off systems architecture
Bruce Rothaar, Woodinville, WA (US); Tim Mason, Kirkland, WA (US); Turner Noel, Redmond, WA (US); Luis Glass, Kirkland, WA (US); Abdolreza Shafie, Kirkland, WA (US); and Mohsen Sazegar, Kirkland, WA (US)
Assigned to KYMETA CORPORATION, Redmond, WA (US)
Filed by Kymeta Corporation, Redmond, WA (US)
Filed on Jul. 5, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/857,863.
Application 17/857,863 is a continuation of application No. 17/344,393, filed on Jun. 10, 2021, granted, now 11,411,640.
Application 17/344,393 is a continuation of application No. 16/432,624, filed on Jun. 5, 2019, granted, now 11,063,661, issued on Jul. 13, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/681,552, filed on Jun. 6, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2023/0129650 A1, Apr. 27, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04B 7/19 (2006.01); H04B 7/185 (2006.01)
CPC H04B 7/18541 (2013.01) 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An antenna for use in satellite communication, the antenna comprising:
an electronically steered flat-panel antenna aperture with a plurality of electronically controlled radio frequency (RF) radiating antenna elements; and
one or more processors configured to control the antenna aperture to
engage in full duplex communication with a first satellite, the full duplex communication using a first beam generated with the electronically steered flat-panel antenna aperture;
generate a split beam with the electronically steered flat-panel antenna aperture and point the split beam toward a second satellite to track the second satellite simultaneously while in full duplex communication with the first satellite; and
seamlessly hand off traffic from the first satellite to the second satellite to maintain connectivity throughout transition from the first satellite to the second satellite, including switching full duplex communications from between the electronically steered flat-panel antenna aperture and the first satellite to full duplex communications between the electronically steered flat-panel antenna aperture and the second satellite.