Patent ID: 11881928
Assignee: THALES
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 9:
10. The method of space communication as claimed in claim 8, comprising a step of control of a maintaining of the space communication, activated periodically according to a timeout of predetermined duration, in the course of which
the broadcasting beacons of the terrestrial system and/or of the multibeam space telecommunications system are scanned according to the predetermined scanning algorithm, and an indication of a mode of new connection, taken from among connection to the terrestrial system and to the space system, and to be selected is provided, this indication being dependent on the respective availabilities of the terrestrial system and the multibeam space telecommunications system and the selection strategy based on priorities of a system from among the terrestrial system and the multibeam space telecommunications system, and
when the indication provided is the satellite mode the communication is maintained on the space network.