Patent ID: 11923943
Assignee: AURA NETWORK SYSTEMS, INC.
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method for operating a beam and null steerable antenna, the method comprising:
receiving one or more flight plans, wherein each flight plan of the one or more flight plans comprises timing, location, and altitude information for an aircraft that is to fly in one or more coverage areas of an aviation communications network;
receiving signal information, wherein the signal information comprises location information for a signal being transmitted in the one or more coverage areas of the aviation communications network;
determining that the received signal information matches a flight plan of the one or more received flight plans;
in response to determining that the received signal information matches the flight plan of the one or more received flight plans:
operating one or more elements of the antenna to point a beam to a location indicated by the location information of the received signal information, wherein the beam is configured to transmit a communications signal between the antenna and the aircraft; and
adjusting the location pointed to by the beam by adjusting the one or more elements of the antenna based on the flight plan so that the location pointed to by the beam is a pre-defined area that the aircraft is expected to be located, wherein the pre-defined area is determined based on the flight plan.