Patent ID: 11909508
Assignee: VIASAT INC.
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A satellite payload comprising:
a plurality of beamforming networks;
pathway hardware configured to receive data, in accordance with a sequence of timeslots, from a ground station of a communication system and to transmit the received data via a plurality of beams created by the plurality of beamforming networks;
storage for storing a beam hopping sequence;
a processor configured to control transmission of the received data via the pathway hardware in accordance with the beam hopping sequence and in accordance with the sequence of timeslots; and
a signal generator to generate strobe signals separated by dwell times,
wherein the processor is configured to:
(i) receive a change to the stored beam hopping sequence from the ground station;
(ii) determine that a new weight set for the stored beam hopping sequence has been received and output weights of the new weight set to the plurality of beamforming networks to be loaded synchronously with one of the strobe signals;
(iii) provide one of the strobe signals to the plurality of beamforming networks to cause the plurality of beamforming networks to load the weights of the new weight set synchronously with the one of the strobe signals; and
(iv) change the stored beam hopping sequence.