PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15920373
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["370", "312000"]

Abstract:
A system for communications via first and second transponders includes a transmitter in a ground hub and a VSAT on a moving platform. The transmitter includes a beam shaping processor for forming concurrently first and second beams to transmit first and second streams of data to the VSAT via the first and second transponders, respectively. The VSAT comprises an array antenna, a beam forming network, Rx/Tx processors, and a mini-hub. The array antenna includes N discrete elements arranged as a distributed array and mounted on a fixed structure, N>1. The beam forming network, remotely located from the array antenna and coupled to the array antenna wirelessly or via a fiber, forms concurrent tracking beams for the array antenna to track the transponders. The Rx/Tx processors perform communications functions including modulation, demodulation, channelization, frequency tracking, and timing synchronization. The mini-hub communicates wirelessly with user devices onboard the moving platform.

Claim (Index 1):
A system for two-way communications via a plurality of transponders including a first transponder and a second transponder, the system comprising:\n a transmitter in a ground hub on land comprising a beam shaping processor for forming a plurality of concurrent transmitting beams, the concurrent transmitting beams including a first transmitting beam to transmit a first stream of data to the first transponder and a second transmitting beam to transmit a second stream of data to the second transponder; and a very-small-aperture terminal (VSAT) for two-way communication, located on a moving platform, the VSAT comprising:\n an array antenna comprising a first subarray having N discrete elements arranged as a distributed array and mounted on a fixed structure, N being an integer greater than 1; \n a beam forming network coupled to the array antenna wirelessly or via a fiber, for forming a plurality of concurrent tracking beams for the array antenna to track at least the first and second transponders, the beam forming network being remotely located from the array antenna; \n a set of receiving and transmitting (Rx/Tx) processors coupled to the beam forming network for performing communications functions including modulation, demodulation, channelization, carrier frequency tracking, and timing synchronization; and \n a mini-hub for communicating wirelessly with user devices onboard the moving platform; \n wherein the first and second streams of data are destined for the VSAT, and wherein the VSAT receives the first stream of data from the first transponder and the second stream of data from the second transponder.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 34.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.12658
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14203386', '15786542', '15485193', '13778175', '15724152']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6044715441492013
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6453643679722336
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6085608265315046
- Mean Citation Score: 435.257774
- Max Citation Score: 721.808
- Similarity Product: 573.0886838960647

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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