US 12,348,292 B2
Averaged beamforming for satellite communication
Neal David Becker, Olney, MD (US); and Udaya Bhaskar, North Potomac, MD (US)
Assigned to Hughes Network Systems, LLC, Germantown, MD (US)
Filed by Hughes Network Systems, LLC, Germantown, MD (US)
Filed on Nov. 30, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/524,111.
Prior Publication US 2025/0183972 A1, Jun. 5, 2025
Int. Cl. H04B 7/06 (2006.01); H04B 7/0426 (2017.01)
CPC H04B 7/0634 (2013.01) [H04B 7/043 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A beamforming system for an antenna for satellite communications, the antenna comprising an array of radiating elements, the system comprising:
a processor programmed to implement a set of averaging functions, the processor programmed to receive channel vectors representing responses from a center and other locations in each of a number of cells to be served, the averaging functions to produce an average channel vector for each cell based on an average of the channel vectors received from a corresponding cell;
the processor further programmed to calculate a beam weight vector for each cell based on a corresponding average channel vector; and
a beamformer to generate a beamforming matrix from the beam weight vectors and to use the beamforming matrix to drive the elements of the antenna to beamform a beam from the antenna.