MUMBAI, India, July 24 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202418084636 A) filed by Viasat, Inc. on November 05, 2024, for Flexible Capacity Satellite Constellation.
Inventor includes Dankberg, Mark.
The application for the patent was published on July 17, 2026, under issue no. 29/2026.
Abstract: Embodiments provide in-flight configuration of satellite pathways to flexibly service terra-link and crosslink traffic in a constellation of non-processed satellites, for example, to facilitate flexible forward-channel and return-channel capacity in a satellite communications system. For example, each satellite in the constellation can include one or more dynamically configurable pathway, and switching and/or beamforming can be used to configure each pathway to be a forward-channel pathway or a returnchannel pathway in each of a number of timeslots according to a pathway configuration schedule. At least some of the pathways can be further selectively configured, in each timeslot, to carry "terra-link" traffic to and/or from terrestrial terminals and "crosslink" traffic to and/or from one or more other satellites of the constellation.
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