Patent ID: 11870544
Assignee: KYMETA CORPORATION
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. An antenna for use in satellite communication, the antenna comprising:
an electronically steered flat-panel antenna aperture with a plurality of electronically controlled radio frequency (RF) radiating antenna elements; and
one or more processors configured to control the antenna aperture to
engage in full duplex communication with a first satellite, the full duplex communication using a first beam generated with the electronically steered flat-panel antenna aperture;
generate a split beam with the electronically steered flat-panel antenna aperture and point the split beam toward a second satellite to track the second satellite simultaneously while in full duplex communication with the first satellite; and
seamlessly hand off traffic from the first satellite to the second satellite to maintain connectivity throughout transition from the first satellite to the second satellite, including switching full duplex communications from between the electronically steered flat-panel antenna aperture and the first satellite to full duplex communications between the electronically steered flat-panel antenna aperture and the second satellite.