Patent ID: 9166673
Filing Date: 2015-10-20
Classification: H04B,H04J,H04L

Abstract:
1. A direct broadcasting service (DBS) satellite system, comprising: a satellite segment, a ground segment and a user segment, wherein the ground segment further comprising at least a first uplink hub terminal, and the user segment further comprising multi-beam-antenna (MBA) user terminals; wherein the first uplink hub terminal further comprising: a preprocessor adapted: to perform a wavefront multiplexing (WF Muxing) process with at least two inputs of broadcasting signals, and at least one input of diagnostic signal and with at least two concurrent outputs of WF muxed (WFM) broadcast signals; and a multi-beam-antenna (MBA) antenna for the uplink hub adapted to continuously point to the at least two broadcasting satellites the satellite segment and to transmit concurrent multiple output channels of the WF muxed (WFM) broadcast signals to the satellite segment.