Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Satellite network service sharing
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Application No.: US16434036Application Date: 2019-06-06
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Publication No.: US10999860B2Publication Date: 2021-05-04
- Inventor: Corey Ryan Johnson , Brian T. Sleight , Thomas Duncan Lookabaugh , James Esserman , William F. Sullivan , Meherwan Polad
- Applicant: ViaSat inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Carlsbad
- Assignee: ViaSat inc.
- Current Assignee: ViaSat inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Carlsbad
- Agency: Holland & Hart LLP
- Main IPC: H04B7/185
- IPC: H04B7/185 ; H04W72/12 ; H04B7/204 ; H04L12/801 ; H04L12/851 ; H04L12/857 ; H04W84/06

Abstract:
Methods, systems, and devices are described for providing network access services to mobile users via multi-user network access terminals over a multi-beam satellite system. Quality-of-service (QoS) is controlled for the mobile devices at a per-user level according to user-specific traffic policies. Mobile users may be provisioned on the satellite system according to a set of traffic policies based on their service level agreement (SLA). System resources of the satellite may be allocated to mobile users based on the demand of each mobile user and the set of traffic polices associated with each mobile user, regardless of which multi-user network access terminal is used to access the system. Dynamic multiplexing of traffic from fixed terminals and mobile users on the same satellite beam can take advantage of statistical multiplexing of large numbers of users and on different usage patterns between fixed terminals and mobile users.
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