US 12,445,928 B2
Orbital or other non-terrestrial base station preemption and/or replacement upon terrestrial base station incapacity or failure
Tyghe Robert Speidel, Washington, DC (US); Mahmoud Khafagy, Fairfax, VA (US); and Stephen A. Wilkus, Middletown, NJ (US)
Assigned to Lynk Global, Inc., Falls Church, VA (US)
Filed by Lynk Global, Inc., Falls Church, VA (US)
Filed on Apr. 20, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/304,221.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/363,479, filed on Apr. 22, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0345341 A1, Oct. 26, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 36/30 (2009.01); H04W 84/06 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 36/305 (2018.08) [H04W 84/06 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for providing backup network services in a communications network used by mobile terminals, the method comprising:
receiving information regarding a terrestrial base station of the communications network;
using a first non-terrestrial base station and the information regarding the terrestrial base station, detecting an incapacity of the terrestrial base station;
identifying a second non-terrestrial base station within a communications range suitable to provide backup service to the communications network;
introducing the second non-terrestrial base station as a new base station of the communications network; and
via the second non-terrestrial base station, for at least one mobile terminal of a plurality of mobile terminals capable of connecting to the terrestrial base station at least during other than a period of incapacitation of the terrestrial base station, carrying traffic between the at least one mobile terminal and the communications network.