Patent ID: 8199692

Claim:
A method for the efficient dissemination of information in a satellite navigation system, which includes a satellite system comprising a plurality of satellites, the method comprising: observing, by a network of observation stations, signals of the satellites; evaluating, by one or more redundant central processing centers, the observations of the observation stations; generating, by the one or more redundant central processing centers, information based on the observations for dissemination to utilization systems; transmitting, by a communication network, the observations from the observation stations to the one or more redundant central processing centers; sending, by the one or more redundant central processing centers, the information to selected satellites; upon receiving the information, sending, by each of the selected satellites, the information to neighboring satellites, wherein at least one of the selected satellites transmits the received information over an antenna with an antenna characteristic with a maximum in directions in which neighboring satellites of the at least one of the selected satellites are farthest away.