PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15925524
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["455", "012100"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods are described for paired-beam satellite communications in a flexible satellite architecture. Embodiments include one or more “bent pipe” satellites having multiple transponders for servicing a number of spot beams. Implementations include novel types of paired-beam transponders that communicatively couple gateway terminals and user terminals in different spot beams. Some implementations also include loopback transponders that communicatively couple gateway terminals and user terminals in the same spot beam. The transponders can use similar components, can provide for flexible forward-link and return-link spectrum allocation, and/or can provide other features. Certain embodiments further include support for utility gateway terminal service and/or redundancy (e.g., active spares) for one or more active components.

Claim (Index 21):
The method of  claim 17 , wherein:\n operating the satellite transponder in the normal mode during the first and second times comprises: receiving, during the first time, the first combined uplink signal comprising a first gateway uplink signal in the uplink frequency band from a gateway terminal and a first user uplink signal in the uplink frequency band from a plurality of user terminals; transmitting, during the first time, the first combined downlink signal to the first gateway terminal and to the plurality of user terminals; receiving, during the second time, the second combined downlink signal comprising a second gateway uplink signal in the uplink frequency band from the gateway terminal and a second user uplink signal in the uplink frequency band from the plurality of user terminals; transmitting, during the second time, the second combined downlink signal to the first gateway terminal and to the plurality of user terminals; and operating the satellite transponder in the utility mode during the third time comprises: receiving a utility gateway uplink signal in the uplink frequency band from a utility gateway terminal and a third user uplink signal in the uplink frequency band from the plurality of user terminals; transmitting a utility gateway downlink signal to the utility gateway terminal, the utility gateway downlink signal corresponding to the third user uplink signal translated to the downlink frequency band; and transmitting a user downlink signal to the plurality of user terminals, the user downlink signal corresponding to the utility gateway uplink signal translated to the downlink frequency band.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.63158
- Patent Class: 455.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14952722', '15432491', '13843333', '15443356', '13902737']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7232005601890511
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.535786028773077
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7044591070474537
- Mean Citation Score: 301.203498
- Max Citation Score: 376.9321
- Similarity Product: 300.4170595747113

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

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