Satellite-based messaging system

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8817603
APP PUB NO 20130021900A1
SERIAL NO

13536340

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In a satellite-based messaging system messages are exchanged between a ground station and mobile terminals over a wide geographic area covered by multiple satellite beams. Each beam contains one or more carrier frequencies. A message processing center is configured to provision a frame comprising a plurality of subframes to carry data over a forward link to the mobile terminals; hop between beams in the forward link and assign each subframe within a frame to a specific satellite beam; provision a transport medium in the form of virtual carriers each defined by one or more carrier frequency/beam hop combinations, wherein each virtual carrier is assigned a unique virtual carrier identifier; and notify the mobile terminals of carrier frequency/hop combinations for assigned virtual carrier identifiers.

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INMARSAT GLOBAL LIMITED99 CITY ROAD LONDON EC1Y 1AX

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Armbruster, Brian Ottawa, CA 5 238
Cheng, Zhenhong Renfrew, CA 1 8
Faulkner, Sean Kanata, CA 2 9
Houtman, Tom Ottawa, CA 5 89
McPherson, Wayne Ottawa, CA 4 18
Territo, Ron Ottawa, CA 1 8

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