US 12,176,994 B2
Dynamic inroute reconfiguration of satellite network communication systems
John Leonard Border, Middletown, MD (US); Murali Regunathan, Washington, DC (US); Jayant Sonrexa, Germantown, MD (US); and Robert James Torres, New Market, MD (US)
Assigned to Hughes Network Systems, LLC, Germantown, MD (US)
Filed by Hughes Network Systems, LLC, Germantown, MD (US)
Filed on Dec. 30, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/566,214.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/133,051, filed on Dec. 31, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0209853 A1, Jun. 30, 2022
Int. Cl. H04B 7/185 (2006.01)
CPC H04B 7/18513 (2013.01) [H04B 7/18532 (2013.01); H04B 7/18543 (2013.01); H04B 7/18582 (2013.01); H04B 7/18584 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of dynamic in-route reconfiguration in a shared bandwidth network, the method comprising:
receiving at least one of transmit power capability and demand requirements from one or more active network terminals of the shared bandwidth network;
determining a resulting in-route configuration during operation of the shared bandwidth network based on the received at least one of transmit power capability and demand requirements, wherein determining the resulting in-route configuration comprises exchanging in-route configuration with a process manager;
comparing the determined resulting in-route configuration to a current in-route configuration;
when the determined resulting in-route configuration is different from the current in-route configuration, establishing the determined resulting in-route configuration as the current in-route configuration and storing the established current in-route configuration in a dynamic in-route reconfiguration manager; and
transmitting the established current in-route configuration to the one or more active network terminals;
wherein establishing the determined resulting in-route configuration as the current in-route configuration comprises:
determining that the determined resulting in-route configuration is in a valid file format;
determining that the one or more active network terminals are ready to accept the determined resulting in-route configuration;
exchanging a switch command with the process manager, the switch command including instructions to replace the current in-route configuration with the determined resulting in-route configuration; and
confirming completion of the switch command by the process manager.