Patent ID: 11876598
Assignee: HUGHES NETWORK SYSTEMS, LLC
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A system, comprising:
a satellite, comprising:
a receiver that receives a higher-order modulation forward feeder link, wherein:
the higher-order modulation forward feeder link comprises a first data stream for a first forward link signal and a second data stream for a second forward link signal;

a demodulator that demodulates the higher-order modulator forward feeder link into a raw bit stream;
a bit slicer component that separates the raw bit stream into a first bit stream and a second bit stream; and
a modulator that modulates the first bit stream into a first user equipment (UE) forward link having a first lower-order digital modulation scheme and the second bit stream into a second UE forward link having a second lower-order digital modulation scheme, wherein:
the higher-order modulation forward feeder link has a higher order digital modulation scheme than the first lower-order digital modulation scheme and the second lower-order digital modulation scheme.