Patent ID: 8681690
Filing Date: 2014-03-25
Classification: H04B,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of enabling multiple terminals to simulate traffic of a single terminal, comprising: transmitting from a first transmitting terminal a request to establish a communication session between the first transmitting terminal and a receiving terminal, the first transmitting terminal being one of a plurality of transmitting terminals; receiving at the first transmitting terminal at least one message from the receiving terminal to establish the communication session and provide an open channel between the first transmitting terminal and the receiving terminal; transmitting data traffic from the plurality of transmitting terminals to the receiving terminal within the communication session established between the first transmitting terminal and the receiving terminal using a multiplexing scheme where the plurality of transmitting terminals share the open channel and such that the receiving terminal passes the data traffic to another point in the network without de-multiplexing the data traffic and is unaware that more than one transmitting terminal is transmitting within the communication session; and maintaining the communication session by transmitting maintenance messages from at least one of the plurality of transmitting terminals to the receiving terminal throughout the communication session, wherein the transmitting terminals are terrestrial devices transmitting to the receiving terminal that is a satellite.