Patent ID: 11924872
Assignee: HUGHES NETWORK SYSTEMS, LLC
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 13:
14. An aeronautical satellite network system comprising:
a terrestrial gateway configured to communicate with a satellite;
a mobility network access point configured to provide network resources to a plurality of aircraft through the terrestrial gateway;
a plurality of network IP processors in the mobility network access point;
an aggregator configured to:
receive network capacity utilization reports of network utilization by the plurality of aircraft,
receive a report of a number of the plurality of aircraft above and a number of the plurality of aircraft below an altitude threshold on a per beam basis,
use the number of the plurality of aircraft above and the number of the plurality of aircraft below the altitude threshold and the capacity utilization for the beam to determine a service priority factor, and
send the service priority factor to the network IP processors;
wherein the plurality of network IP processors are configured to use the service priority factor to limit bandwidth to individual aircraft of the plurality of aircraft serviced by each of the plurality of network IP processors.