Patent ID: 9455777
Filing Date: 2016-09-27
CPC Classification: H04B,H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: providing a communication service via satellite beams of a multi-beam satellite system; receiving, from one or more multi-user network access terminals serviced via a first satellite beam of a multi-beam satellite, first resource requests for a first time period for first mobile data traffic associated with a plurality of mobile devices in communication with the one or more multi-user network access terminals, wherein the plurality of mobile devices are associated with user-specific traffic policies, and wherein the user-specific traffic policies comprise a first provisioned service level for a first mobile device of the plurality of mobile devices and a second provisioned service level different from the first provisioned service level for a second mobile device of the plurality of mobile devices; and scheduling transmission of the first mobile data traffic on first beam resources of the first satellite beam according to the first resource requests and the user-specific traffic policies, wherein the scheduling of the first mobile data traffic comprises allocating a first portion of the first beam resources to the first mobile device and a second portion of the first beam resources to the second mobile device, the first and second portions allocated based on the first and second provisioned service levels, respectively.