Patent ID: 11924872
Assignee: HUGHES NETWORK SYSTEMS, LLC
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 5:
6. An aeronautical satellite network system comprising:
a terrestrial gateway configured to communicate with a satellite;
a mobility network access point configured to provide network resources to a plurality of aircraft through the terrestrial gateway;
an aggregator configured to receive capacity utilization of network communication to the plurality of aircraft within a beam of the satellite and determine a service priority factor that depends on altitude of the plurality of aircraft in the beam,
wherein the mobility network access point is configured to share network bandwidth of the beam to the plurality of aircraft based on the service priority factor; and
wherein the aggregator is configured to receive a report of a number of the plurality of aircraft above and a number of the plurality of aircraft below an altitude threshold on a per beam basis and uses the number of the plurality of aircraft above and the number of the plurality of aircraft below the altitude threshold and the capacity utilization for the beam to determine the service priority factor.