Patent ID: 11909503
Assignee: ATC TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method for operating a satellite network to broadcast a plurality of spotbeams within a coverage area, the method comprising:
receiving, with a user equipment, bearer signals from a plurality of adjacent spotbeams of the plurality of spotbeams, wherein each of the plurality of spotbeams carries a bearer signal bearing identical broadcast program information; and
constructively utilizing, with the user equipment, the bearer signals received from the plurality of adjacent spotbeams to decode the identical broadcast program information;
wherein the bearer signals transmitted in each spotbeam of the plurality of adjacent spotbeams are transmitted with a differential delay with respect to the bearer signals of each of the other spotbeams of the plurality of adjacent spotbeams, and
wherein the choice of the differential delay is optimized relative to constraints that include at least one selected from a group consisting of: a maximization of a received signal to noise and interference ratio; a minimization of user equipment implementation complexity; and a minimization of difference from existing terrestrial broadcast/multicast standards.