Patent ID: 11877186
Assignee: GOGO BUSINESS AVIATION LLC
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 10:
11. A system, comprising:
a satellite beam load saturation mitigator comprising a set of computer-executable instructions stored on one or more memories of the system and executable by one or more processors of the system to:
project a balanced load among satellite data connections among a group of in-flight aircraft based on respective geographic locations of the group of in-flight aircraft, respective directions of the group of in-flight aircraft, and a set of distribution rules; and
based on the projected balanced load, determine a series of adjustments to a plurality of parameters impacting in-flight connectivity of the group of in-flight aircraft to a plurality of satellites, the plurality of parameters indicative of a function having at least one of geographic position, speed, or direction of in-flight aircraft as at least one independent variable of the function; and
a data transmitter configured to transmit the series of adjustments to the plurality of parameters to selected aircraft included in the group of in-flight aircraft over a time period to thereby continually supply load-balanced parameters to the group of in-flight aircraft corresponding to the balanced load during the time period, the load-balanced parameters stored on each aircraft of the group of in-flight aircraft and changing, based on the function, as an expected future geographic position of the each aircraft changes, the load-balanced parameters including a satellite beam blacklist, and the load-balanced parameters utilized by the each aircraft to select, from a plurality of satellite beams, a respective satellite beam to which the each aircraft is to connect.