Patent ID: 8831598
Filing Date: 2014-09-09
Classification: H04B,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of communicating via a satellite using a remote apparatus that transmits a signal to the satellite, the method including: determining a geographical location of the remote apparatus; determining a local data set corresponding to the geographical location, the local data set including communication parameters for controlling the communicating via the satellite conducted by the remote apparatus from the geographical location; retrieving the local data set from a global data set stored entirely in a memory of the remote apparatus, the global data set including local data sets corresponding to every geographical location in the world; transmitting a signal from the remote apparatus to the satellite according to the communication parameters in the local data set retrieved from the global data set stored entirely in the memory of the remote apparatus; and communicating via the satellite using a beam according to the communication parameters, the communication parameters including, for each of a plurality of beams, a beam name, a beam receive quality, and a beam equivalent isotropically radiated power.