System and method of providing N-tiered enterprise/web-based management, procedure coordination, and control of a geosynchronous satellite fleet
First Claim
1. An N-tiered enterprise system for managing satellite fleet information and commands, comprising:
- one or more terminals operating Tier 1 software layers;
one or more application servers operating Tier-2 software layers; and
a plurality of Tracking, Telemetry and Control (TT&
C) data resources operating Tier 3 software layers dedicated to storing and/or processing satellite-based data, wherein the Tier-2 application servers control Tier-1 terminal access to the satellite-based data stored and/or processed in Tier-3-Tier N real-time, simulated, playback and archived data resources.
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Abstract
An N-Tiered enterprise and/or N-Tiered Web-based enterprise system and methods for managing, monitoring, coordinating the procedures of and optionally controlling a fleet of geosynchronous satellites through a distributed network such as the Internet. The system and associated object oriented software architecture seamlessly supports monitoring and analyzing real-time, near real-time, historical/playback, simulated and archived satellite telemetry as well as Tracking, Telemetry and Control (TT&C) ground system generated data products such as real-time alerts, archived alerts and ground system server statuses from a group of legacy distributed TT&C wide area network (WAN) ground station systems located around the world.
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10 Claims
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1. An N-tiered enterprise system for managing satellite fleet information and commands, comprising:
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one or more terminals operating Tier 1 software layers; one or more application servers operating Tier-2 software layers; and a plurality of Tracking, Telemetry and Control (TT&
C) data resources operating Tier 3 software layers dedicated to storing and/or processing satellite-based data, wherein the Tier-2 application servers control Tier-1 terminal access to the satellite-based data stored and/or processed in Tier-3-Tier N real-time, simulated, playback and archived data resources. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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