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

Claim 0:
1. A method for prioritization in an aeronautical satellite network system, the method comprising:
determining network utilization of a beam of the aeronautical satellite network system by a plurality of aircraft using network capacity of the beam;
determining whether a demand in the beam indicated by network utilization is greater than the capacity of the beam;
receiving 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;
receiving a capacity utilization for the beam; and
using 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 a service priority factor;
upon determining the network demand in the beam indicated by the network utilization is greater than capacity of the beam, sharing network bandwidth of the beam to the plurality of aircraft based on the service priority factor that depends on altitude of the plurality of aircraft using network capacity in the beam.