US 12,414,107 B2
Improving network transmit power profile by randomizing resource grants on a multi-user communications network
Kaushik Chakraborty, San Diego, CA (US); Srikar Potta, San Marcos, CA (US); Aniruddha Das, San Marcos, CA (US); and James E. Petranovich, San Diego, CA (US)
Assigned to VIASAT, INC., Carlsbad, CA (US)
Filed by VIASAT, INC., Carlsbad, CA (US)
Filed on May 22, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/671,723.
Application 18/671,723 is a division of application No. 17/917,213, granted, now 12,022,460, previously published as PCT/US2021/026051, filed on Apr. 6, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/005,995, filed on Apr. 6, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2024/0397507 A1, Nov. 28, 2024
Int. Cl. H04W 72/1263 (2023.01); H04W 72/543 (2023.01)
CPC H04W 72/1263 (2013.01) [H04W 72/543 (2023.01)] 26 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for allocating resource grants on a communications network, resource grants allocated using frames having a plurality of available slots, the method comprising:
determining a plurality of active slots for a current frame, the plurality of active slots comprising a subset of the plurality of available slots in the current frame to be used to allocate resource grants;
proceeding through the plurality of active slots to allocate resource grants within individual active slots to one or more user terminals; and
distributing allocated resource grants in time by adjusting a time position within the active slot of each resource grant to the one or more user terminals,
wherein resource grants are grouped into a plurality of return channel groups, individual return channel groups comprising a set of frequency channels allocated to a collection of user terminals.