Patent ID: 11876603
Assignee: HUGHES NETWORK SYSTEMS, LLC
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 11:
12. A satellite network comprising:
a User Terminal (UT) configured to perform a beam switch between an old beam and a new beam when the UT is disposed in an overlap area of the old beam and the new beam;
a Network Access Point (NAP) to duplicate, over the new beam, user traffic to the UT;
and
a new gateway to manage the new beam and to assign a Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) allocation for the UT on the new beam, prior to an arrival of the UT on the new beam,
wherein the UE determines a transmit instant for the new beam based on the TDMA allocation and a difference in a path delay between the new beam and the old beam calculated as a difference in a reception timestamp of a last message received in the old beam and a first message received in the new beam.