DATA AND TELEPHONY SATELLITE NETWORK WITH MULTIPLE PATHS

• US 20110058515A1
• Filed: 09/09/2009
• Published: 03/10/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/09/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Frysco Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Frysco Incorporated
• Inventors: Pendergraft, Mark Alan, SHAHAB, NAIM
• Application Number:
  US12/555,810
• Publication Number:
  US 20110058515A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/316
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/18534 for enhancing link reliablility, e.g. satellites diversity

Abstract

A satellite network communicates data packets between a local handset and a remote handset in order to establish telephone communication between the handsets. The satellite network has a primary LEO satellite that receives said data packets from the local handset, and various communication links between the primary LEO satellite and the remote handset. When the data packets are received from the local handset, the primary LEO satellite concurrently transmits the data packets in their entirety through each of the communication paths to the remote handset. When the data packets are received, the remote handset identifies and discards duplicate data packets that are not needed.

Claims

1. A satellite network for communicating data packets between a local handset and a remote handset in order to establish telephone communication between the local handset and the remote handset, the satellite network comprising:

a primary LEO satellite that receives said data packets from the local handset;

wherein upon receiving said data packets, the primary LEO satellite concurrently transmits said data packets in their entirety through each of a plurality of communication links between the primary LEO satellite and the remote handset for said telephone communication,

wherein said plurality of communication links include

a first link from the primary LEO satellite via a second LEO satellite to the remote handset,

a second link from the primary LEO satellite via one or more GEO satellites to the remote handset, and

a third communication link from the primary LEO satellite via a TCP/IP network to the remote handset.

2. The satellite network of claim 1 wherein the third link further comprises a GEO satellite communicably coupled between the TCP/IP network and the remote handset.

3. The satellite network of claim 1 wherein the first link further comprises a GEO satellite communicably coupled between the second LEO satellite and the remote handset.

4. A satellite network for communicating data packets between a local handset and a remote handset in order to establish telephone communication between the handsets, the satellite network comprising:

a primary LEO satellite that receives said data packets from the local handset; and

a plurality of communication links between the primary LEO satellite and the remote handset,

wherein upon receiving said data packets from the local handset, the primary LEO satellite concurrently transmits said data packets in their entirety through each of said plurality of communication links to the remote handset in order to establish said telephone communication, whereupon receiving said data packets, the remote handset identifies duplicate data packets and discards said duplicate data packets.

5. The satellite network of claim 4 wherein the plurality of communication links comprises a first link from the primary LEO satellite via a second LEO satellite to the remote handset.

6. The satellite network of claim 4 wherein the plurality of communication links comprises a second link from the primary LEO satellite via one or more GEO satellites to the remote handset.

7. The satellite network of claim 4 wherein the plurality of communication links comprises a third communication link from the primary LEO satellite via a TCP/IP network to the remote handset.

8. A method used by a satellite network for communicating data packets between a local handset and a remote handset in order to establish telephone communication between the handsets, said method comprising:

providing a primary LEO satellite that receives said data packets from the local handset; and

establishing a plurality of communication links between the primary LEO satellite and the remote handset,

wherein upon receiving said data packets from the local handset, the primary LEO satellite concurrently transmits said data packets in their entirety through each of said plurality of communication links to the remote handset in order to establish said telephone communication, whereupon receiving said data packets, the remote handset identifies duplicate data packets and discards said duplicate data packets.