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Resource allocation method for multi-platform communication system

  • US 7,215,954 B1
  • Filed: 06/06/2000
  • Issued: 05/08/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/18/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for allocating system resources in a multi-platform communication system, comprising:

  • providing a plurality of individual transponding nodes;

    processing a plurality of local user signals at a ground hub to compensate for differential propagation delays to any one of a plurality of remote users;

    assigning each of said plurality of remote users a profit value, which is dependent upon certain predetermined user criteria;

    assigning each of said plurality of remote users one or more resource cells in platform-code space depending upon service requirements of each of said plurality of remote users, at least one of said users assigned a same platform code in more than one node;

    wherein each resource cell assigned to a particular user enables the particular user to transmit signals to or from the hub through a particular one of said transponding nodes and using a particular code.

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