Patent ID: 11923961
Assignee: INMARSAT GLOBAL LIMITED
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method of generating an optimized beam layout for a satellite in a satellite communications system, the method comprising:
a. receiving terminal and/or network data representing a distribution of communications terminals to be served by the satellite in the coverage area;
b. identifying one or more high traffic or high priority terminals from the terminal and/or network data;
c. determining an overlay beam directed to the one or more high-traffic terminals;
d. removing the traffic from the one or more high traffic or high priority terminals from consideration of the optimized beam layout;
e. optimizing the positions of a set of beam centers with respect to the terminal and/or network data, to generate optimized beam center positions; and
f. deriving an optimized beam layout from the optimized beam center positions.