Patent ID: 11923961
Assignee: INMARSAT GLOBAL LIMITED
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 24:
25. A system for generating an optimized beam layout for a satellite in a satellite communications system, the system comprising:
a. an input arranged to receive terminal and/or network data representing a distribution of communications terminals to be served by the satellite in the coverage area; and
b. a processor arranged to:
receive terminal and/or network data representing a distribution of communications terminals to be served by the satellite in the coverage area;
identify one or more high traffic or high priority terminals from the terminal and/or network data;
determine an overlay beam directed to the one or more high-traffic terminals;
remove the traffic from the one or more high traffic or high priority terminals from consideration of the optimized beam layout;
optimize the positions of a set of beam centers with respect to the terminal and/or network data, to generate optimized beam center positions; and
derive an optimized beam layout from the optimized beam center positions.