Patent ID: 11950109
Assignee: AST & SCIENCE, LLC
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 15:
16. A satellite communication system, comprising:
a phased antenna array having a plurality of antenna elements, a field of view (FoV) and an aperture, and configured to communicate with devices a plurality of cells in the FoV via a plurality of uplink beams and a plurality of downlink beams, each of the plurality of uplink beams and each of the plurality of downlink beams being associated with one of the plurality of cells; and
a satellite module in operative communication with the phased antenna array, the satellite module having a processing device configured to:
determine an uplink beam taper for each uplink beam of the plurality of uplink beams according to a first set of criteria;
determine a downlink beam taper for each downlink beam of the plurality of downlink beams according to a second set of criteria; and
distribute, to the phased array, the uplink beam taper for each uplink beam and the downlink taper for each downlink beam.