Patent ID: 6980530

Claim:
A spot beam hopping packet scheduler system receiving downlink cell ID and burst memory pointers from a burst assembly and congestion controller, said spot beam hopping packet scheduler system providing burst information to an antenna controller and modulator, said spot beam hopping packet scheduler system comprising: a downlink queue coupled to said burst assembly and congestion controller, said downlink queue receiving and storing said downlink cell ID and burst memory pointers; a cache coupled to said downlink queue, said cache receiving and storing said downlink cell ID and burst memory pointers from said downlink queue; a downlink search controller coupled to said downlink queue and said cache, said downlink search controller having control logic operative to search said downlink queue for packet bursts and fill any empty cache slots with packet bursts from said downlink queue; and a cache search controller coupled to said cache, said cache search controller having control logic operative to select a seed packet from said cache in statistically weighted order, select compatible packets from said cache with statistically weighted order and assign packet bursts to spot beams.