Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Low latency schedule-driven handovers
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Application No.: US17337218Application Date: 2021-06-02
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Publication No.: US11949496B1Publication Date: 2024-04-02
- Inventor: Chen Chen , Pavel Chikulaev , Sergii Ziuzin , David Sacks , Peter J. Worters , Darshan Purohit , Yashodhan Dandekar , Vladimir Skuratovich , Andrei Pushkin , Phillip E. Barber
- Applicant: Space Exploration Technologies Corp.
- Applicant Address: US CA Hawthorne
- Assignee: Space Exploration Technologies Corp.
- Current Assignee: Space Exploration Technologies Corp.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Hawthorne
- Agency: Polsinelli PC
- Main IPC: H04B7/185
- IPC: H04B7/185 ; H04W36/00 ; H04W36/08 ; H04W88/16

Abstract:
Systems, methods, and non-transitory media are provided for low latency handovers. An example method can include receiving, by a satellite, a schedule of communications between the satellite and one or more gateways; requesting, based on the schedule, a handover from a link between the satellite and a gateway to a different link between the satellite and the gateway or a different gateway; prior to a completion of the handover, processing packets bicasted over the link between the satellite and the gateway and the different link between the satellite and the gateway or the different gateway; performing the handover from the link between the satellite and the gateway to the different link between the satellite and the gateway or the different gateway; and after the handover, transmitting, by the satellite, one or more packets via the different link between the satellite and the gateway or the different gateway.
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