Patent ID: 9622259
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for providing a network access service at a multi-user network access terminal on a vehicle, comprising: establishing, at the multi-user network access terminal, a plurality of local connections with a plurality of mobile devices on the vehicle; establishing a network access connection via a satellite beam of a satellite communications system; identifying respective user-specific traffic policies associated with the plurality of mobile devices; identifying respective return link data streams associated with the plurality of mobile devices comprising data to be sent by the multi-user network access terminal to external networks via the satellite beam; receiving an allocation of resources of the satellite beam for uplink data to be sent via the network access connection; and distributing the received allocation of resources among the respective return link data streams based on the respective user-specific traffic policies associated with the plurality of mobile devices.