Patent ID: 11876603
Assignee: HUGHES NETWORK SYSTEMS, LLC
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method for beam switching by a User Terminal (UT), the method comprising:
initiating a beam switch between an old beam and a new beam when the UT is disposed in an overlap area of the old beam and the new beam;
duplicating, over the new beam, user traffic to the UT;
assigning a Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) allocation for the UT on the new beam, prior to an arrival of the UT on the new beam; and
determining a transmit instant for the new beam based on the TDMA allocation and a difference in a path delay between the new beam and the old beam calculated as a difference in a reception timestamp of a last message received in the old beam and a first message received in the new beam.