PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15889194
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["370", "316000"]

Abstract:
The disclosure provides for the flexible assignment of user beams to gateway beams in digital payload satellite systems. A “virtual beam”—a set of data values associating a physical user satellite beam with a Gateway Earth Station (“GW”) and used by the GW to service the physical user satellite beam, may be created or defined each time a physical user satellite beam is assigned to a GW. For one physical user beam, a plurality of virtual beams may be created, where each virtual beam corresponds to a GW. The virtual beams may be used to provide for the flexible assignment of user beams to gateway beams in a variety of applications such as GW expansion, physical user beam reassignment from one GW to another GW, diversity operation of terminals, and GW redundancy.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of beam assignment in a digital payload satellite network including a first gateway earth station (GW) and a second GW, the method comprising:\n for the second GW, configuring a virtual beam corresponding to a physical spot beam of the digital payload satellite that serves a plurality of terminals, wherein at least during configuration of the virtual beam, the first GW serves the plurality of terminals and a digital payload of the satellite directs communications with terminals within the physical spot beam to the first GW; and after configuring the virtual beam for the second GW, serving one or more of the plurality of terminals from the second GW, wherein the digital payload of the satellite is configured to direct communications with the one or more terminals within the physical spot beam to the second GW while the second GW serves the one or more of the plurality of the terminals.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.14493
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13779401', '14730558', '14590776', '14589637', '15451307']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5586784386358954
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5082925615329322
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5536398509255991
- Mean Citation Score: 250.415236
- Max Citation Score: 293.48184
- Similarity Product: 212.5813945216941

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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