US 11,729,633 B2
Techniques for spatial diversity in satellite communications
Maxwell A. Smoot, Seattle, WA (US); and Alexander L. Bautista, Jr., Seattle, WA (US)
Assigned to Kymeta Corporation, Redmond, WA (US)
Filed by Kymeta Corporation, Redmond, WA (US)
Filed on Oct. 11, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/498,255.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/090,376, filed on Oct. 12, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0116792 A1, Apr. 14, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 16/28 (2009.01); H04B 7/06 (2006.01); H04B 7/185 (2006.01); H04W 84/06 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 16/28 (2013.01) [H04B 7/0617 (2013.01); H04B 7/18582 (2013.01); H04B 7/18589 (2013.01); H04B 7/18591 (2013.01); H04W 84/06 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for controlling communication in a satellite communication network having multiple constellations and a satellite terminal with a single electronically steered flat-panel antenna capable of generating a plurality of beams for communication links with multiple satellites, the method comprising:
determining, under network control, availability of a plurality of networks by which network traffic may be exchanged with the single electronically steered flat-panel antenna; and
managing, under network control, two or more satellite links between the single electronically steered flat-panel antenna and two or more satellites of different networks to route the network traffic, including determining when to use each of the two or more satellite links, the two or more satellite links being generated using two or more beams from the single electronically steered flat-panel antenna.