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7391677 Positioning device, positioning method, and timepiece having the positioning device  
A positioning device has a reception unit for receiving navigation messages transmitted continuously in a time series from positioning information satellites orbiting the Earth and determines the...
7386310 Fallback mode ingress/egress mechanism for satellite communication system  
A satellite communications system having a fallback mode of operation, during which uplink signals are transmitted at a reduced data rate, is provided with a novel fallback mode ingress/egress...
7386284 Controlling the gain of a remote active antenna  
A receiver includes a tuner and a circuit. The tuner receives an indication of a radio frequency signal from an antenna feedline in response to the radio frequency signal being provided to the...
7379707 System for concurrent mobile two-way data communications and TV reception  
A low profile mobile in-motion antenna and transmit/receive terminal system for two-way “VSAT” type satellite communication using FSS service, preferably in Ku band, supporting at the same time...
7376417 Method and system of efficient spectrum utilization by communications satellites  
A satellite system includes a plurality of orbit slots having a first orbital and a second orbital slot. A first satellite occupies a first orbital slot and generates a first set of uniform beams....
7373161 Method and arrangement for power control  
A method for setting a power control level ( 600 ) in a wireless communication system. The method includes the steps of obtaining ( 620 ) transmission information from a wireless subscriber unit,...
7373105 Method of determining communication link quality employing beacon signals  
A method of determining communication link quality includes the steps of: providing communications stations (e.g., UHF communications satellites, base stations of a terrestrial cellular network)...
7373085 Hybrid satellite and fiber communications system  
A communication system employing optical fibers and a high data rate satellite is utilized to provide high-speed Internet access to various geographic regions. In one aspect, a first teleport...
7369847 Fixed cell communication system with reduced interference  
A communication system has a high altitude communication device that has an antenna for directing beams to a fixed cell pattern with a polarity of cells. A specific pattern of cells having the same...
7369818 Functional assembly with automatic adaptable wireless characteristics  
A functional device is configured to communicate with one or more additional devices over a wireless communications link using wireless circuitry. The device includes a memory for storing...
7369809 System and method for continuous broadcast service from non-geostationary orbits  
A method, apparatus for providing at least near continuous broadcast services to one or more terrestrial receiver stations is disclosed. The system comprises a plurality of satellites, each...
7366463 Military UHF and commercial Geo-mobile system combination for radio signal relay  
A radio signal relay device such as satellite is used to cover several relatively small geographical regions with relatively narrow beams as well as a relatively large geographical region with a...
7366262 Frequency estimation method of MB-OFDM UWB system using time frequency hopping strategy  
A frequency estimation method of multiband (MB)-orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) ultra wide band (UWB) system using an Alt-PHY time frequency (TF) hopping strategy based on IEEE...
7366125 Extensible satellite communication system  
A satellite network [ 100 ] includes backbone satellites [ 110 ]. The backbone satellites [ 110 ] act as routers for data units transmitted through network [ 100 ]. The backbone satellites [ 110 ]...
7362999 Method and system for customized music delivery  
A system and method for customized music delivery to a vehicle including determining a playlist 200 , storing the playlist on a server 202 , selecting content corresponding to the playlist 204 ,...
7362998 Mobile military satellite receiver architecture for accommodating wide carrier offset and method of performing coarse carrier offset adjustment  
A coarse carrier offset adapter for determining a coarse carrier offset for application to a received satellite signal, a method of performing coarse carrier offset adjustment and a time division...
7359700 Platform-associated visitor location registers (VLR) for cellular communications  
A wireless communications system and method provides wireless communications service for user equipment on board an aircraft. The aircraft includes on-board system equipment for supporting the...
7356306 Method and apparatus for code division switching of communication signals by trunk coding  
A method provides for trunk group satellite switching using a code division multiple access (CDMA) scheme. The method includes receiving inbound satellite beams carrying individually encoded user...
7356305 Vehicle enabled networks  
A method and apparatus for improving a network is described. The network uses the energy from a vehicle battery or vehicle generator to power an intermediate transmitter device that receives the...
7352991 Satellite signal distribution systems  
Various configurations and equipment are described for providing satellite television programming from multiple satellite antennas to receivers, particularly to receivers located in apartments...
7343157 Cell phone audio/video in-flight entertainment system  
An airborne cell phone in-flight entertainment (IFE) system uses a cell phone for calls and IFE requests by dialing appropriate numbers. A pico cell receives the calls and the IFE requests. A soft...
7340213 Intra- and/or inter-system interference reducing systems and methods for satellite communications systems  
A first radio signal is received via a first satellite reception path, for example, an antenna or spot beam, which serves a satellite cell. The received first radio signal includes a desired...
7327989 Dual channel two-way satellite communication  
The present invention relates to a system, device and method for two-way satellite communication using a dual channel communication configuration to make better use of limited bandwidth. The two...
7327698 Method and system for providing satellite communications using on-orbit payload configuration and reconfiguration  
A system for providing high frequency data communications in a satellite-based communications network includes a plurality of communications satellites each having uplink and downlink antennas...
7321776 Estimating GPS time at cellular terminals based on timing of information from base stations and satellites  
A mobile terminal generates an estimate of GPS time. The mobile terminal includes a cellular receiver, a GPS receiver, and a processor. The cellular receiver is configured to receive communication...
7317895 Method of controlling a satellite communication system, a timing unit, and a control unit of a timing unit  
A method of controlling a satellite communication system, a timing unit, and a control unit of a timing unit. The method comprises dividing the coverage area of the satellite communication system...
7313547 Manager level device/service arbitrator and methods  
A method for managing access to service entities (e.g., such as a devices, resources, and services, which are limited resources) is provided. The method includes requesting a priority level. In...
7313362 High altitude airborne craft used as radio relay and method for placing said airborne craft on station  
The present invention relates to an aircraft and to a method of getting the aircraft onto station. According to the invention, said aircraft ( 1 ) includes propulsion means ( 2 ) capable only of...
7308230 Device and method to locally fill gaps in spotbeam satellite systems with frequency re-use  
Systems and methods for transmitting and receiving diverse signals across regions using a minimum of frequency capacity and maintaining compatibility with the heritage system. A system of the...
7308229 System, apparatus and method for single-channel or multi-channel terrestrial communication  
A terrestrial radio system for delivering to consumers data transmission services, Internet services, two-way capabilities and single-channel or multi-channel video programming, including national,...
7305211 Satellite communications system using multiple earth stations  
A satellite communications system uses multiple ground stations and one or more satellites for communicating between mobile subscribers and a land-based communications network, such as the PSTN or...
7302226 Combined fixed satellite service and mobile platform satellite service communication system  
A communication system for a mobile platform satellite service (MPSS) system includes a receiver subsystem (RS) and a transmitter subsystem (TS). A satellite transponder is in communication with...
7302225 Time acquisition in a wireless position determination system  
A system and method for providing timing information to a wireless device in a position determination system is disclosed. A wireless device includes a reference signal receiver, a signal...
7301915 System and method for resolving frequency and timing uncertainty in access transmissions in a spread spectrum communication system  
A method for reducing the number of required frequency and time hypotheses to acquire an access transmission in a satellite communication system. By reducing the number of required hypotheses, the...
7295807 Methods and systems for configuring satellite antenna cell patterns in response to terrestrial use of satellite frequencies  
Space-based wireless radiotelephone communications are provided in a satellite footprint over a satellite radiotelephone frequency band. The satellite footprint is divided into satellite cells in...
7292848 Method of activating an in-vehicle wireless communication device  
The invention provides a system and method for activating an in-vehicle wireless communication device. A mobile identification number associated with the wireless communication device is provided....
7292789 Multi-channel wide-field laser communications method and apparatus  
A communications terminal includes a first aperture configured to receive laser signals from ground laser sources, pick-off mirrors configured to receive laser signals from mobile laser sources, an...
7292638 Transform-based alias cancellation multi-channel tuner  
A satellite receiver includes a signal cancellation tuner for processing a plurality of different transponder signals to simultaneously provide a plurality of different bit streams. The signal...
7289763 Cellular telephone system that uses position of a mobile unit to make call management decisions  
A cellular telephone system has call management decisions made based on the exact geographic location of the mobile unit. These call management decisions include billing and taxing decisions, cell...
7286824 Method for controlling data transmission rate in interactive satellite communication system  
A method for controlling data transmission rate in order to save waste of resources due to Non-Line Of Sight (NLOS) region when a mobile terminal passes through the NLOS region in an interactive...
7286795 System and method for effective reception and transmission of satellite signals  
The present invention relates to a system and method for terrestrial transmission of RF signals comprising: an antenna, where said antenna includes an active device and a passive device and a...
7280498 Low-latency/low link margin airborne satellite internet system and method using COTS infrastructure  
Low-latency satellite Internet service from a commercial off-the-shelf two-way satellite Internet system for aircraft under marginal communications link conditions is provided. One or more...
7277674 Data monitoring system and method using a single time axis with time information provided by a GPS receiver  
A data monitoring system in communication network has the global position system (GPS) receiver, a packet data collecting device and a mobile station-packet data serving node monitoring system...
7277673 Virtually geostationary satellite array with optimized parameters  
A plurality of satellites are placed into a virtually geosynchronous orbit, in which a first part of the orbit, that is near apogee, has a similar movement to the rotation of the earth, and...
7274906 Digital radio feedback systems  
A system including a digital radio broadcast station, a receiver, and a network. The digital radio broadcast station includes a transmitter and a server. The receiver is in communication with the...
7274905 Digital radio feedback apparatuses, systems, and methods  
An apparatus, system, and method for establishing a two-way communication feedback path between a receiver and a transmitter. The receiver includes an input portion, a processor, a user interface,...
7260411 Aiding beam identification in a satellite system  
A system and method for determining timing offset errors in a low earth orbit satellite system based upon Doppler and Doppler rate of change is provided. A user terminal determines first and second...
7257418 Rapid user acquisition by a ground-based beamformer  
A method for rapid acquisition of a specific subscriber by a ground-based beamformer includes the steps of defining a coverage area as an arrangement of a plurality of cells wherein one of the...
7257370 Method and apparatus for mitigating interference from terrestrial broadcasts sharing the same channel with satellite broadcasts using an antenna with posterior sidelobes  
An apparatus for simultaneously receiving a first signal from a non-terrestrial source and a second signal from a terrestrial source on the same or overlapping channels using a receive antenna with...
7245874 Infrastructure for telephony network  
A cellular telephone network comprises peripheral branches and a central high-capacity data trunking region or network backbone. The invention concerns effective utilization of trunking capacity to...