Patent ID: 9276664
Filing Date: 2016-03-01
CPC Classification: H04B,H04H,H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A system, comprising: a satellite operable to communicate with a first mobile unit using a first multicast regional beam and a first interactive spot beam, the satellite operable to communicate with a second mobile unit using the first multicast regional beam and a second interactive spot beam; a terrestrial base transceiver station operable to communicate with the first mobile unit and the second mobile unit via a second multicast regional beam; and a ground station configured to be in communication with the satellite and the terrestrial base transceiver station to provide a mobile interactive satellite service including a multicast component and an interactive component, the terrestrial base transceiver station configured to send data for the multicast component to the first mobile unit via the second multicast regional beam, the satellite configured to send data for the multicast component to the first mobile unit and the second mobile unit via the first multicast regional beam, the first mobile unit configured to combine a signal associated with the first multicast regional beam with a signal associated with the second multicast regional beam, the satellite configured to send data for the interactive component to the first mobile unit via the first interactive spot beam, the satellite configured to send data for the interactive component to the second mobile unit via the second interactive spot beam.