Patent ID: 8385937

Claim:
A process for equalizing traffic among two or more beams from an array antenna comprising the steps of: determining a capacity desired for each one of mobile terminals in an area covered by said two or more beams; determining the location of said mobile terminals; allocating said two or more beams so that said beams service said terminals; and directing a first of said two or more beams to service said terminals, where said directing step includes selecting a position of said first beam from a set of continuous positions, where at least one of said beams services a number of terminals whose collective capacity is at least 1/N th of a total capacity desired by the terminals to be serviced by said beams, where N is the number of beams, where said allocating step allocates said beams among said terminals based on desired capacity of both real-time and non-real-time information, and where said allocating step further comprises the steps of: separating a time frame into a real-time portion and a non-real time portion; allocating said beams during said real-time-portion to handle said real-time information; and allocating said beams during said non-real-portion to handle said non-real-time information.