Patent ID: 11916305
Assignee: LINQUEST CORPORATION
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 9:
10. A system comprising:
an N-element receiving phased array antenna with a digital-beam-forming (DBF) network, N being an integer greater than 100, one or more processors, memory, and one or more programs stored in the memory for execution by the one or more processors for:
performing digital beam forming to capture a desired signal from a moving source via the N-element phased array, including digitally multiplying received signals in the N-elements by a tracking beam beam weight vector (BWV) for the tracking beam, wherein the tracking beam BMV comprises N I/Q components;
determining a new tracking beam BWV for the tracking beam in a next update, wherein the new tracking beam BWV is a weighted sum of M pre-stored spot beam BWVs of the M contiguous spot beams; and
loading the new tracking beam BWV to a buffer.