Patent ID: 11968023
Assignee: STAR MESH LLC
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  Y | IPC H

Claim 14:
15. The method for transmitting data in claim 13, wherein said further node comprises at least one second tier satellite node, the method further comprising:
(f) in an additional time slot subsequent to step (d), transmitting second tier routing messages simultaneously from all of the antennas of all of said second tier satellite nodes, wherein each said second tier routing message includes the highest first tier composite quality received by a corresponding antenna of said second tier satellite node and the address of the sending ground station associated with said received first tier routing message; and
(g) in a subsequent time slot before step (e), (1) determining a second tier composite quality associated with (i) each second tier routing message received by a second tier satellite node and (ii) the quality of the first tier routing message included in said second tier routing message, said second tier composite quality indicating the suitability of said second tier satellite node for incorporation in a radio route for transmitting the data to the sending ground station with the address included in the corresponding first tier routing message, and (2) storing at each said node receiving one or more second tier routing messages the identity of the antenna on which the routing message with the highest second tier composite quality was received from a corresponding first tier satellite node; and
(h) following said step(g), transmitting from said respective antennas the identities of which were stored in steps (d)(2) and (g)(2) data addressed to a destination ground station having the sending ground station address stored in steps (g)(2) and (b)(2).