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 1):
A method for satellite communications, the method comprising:\n receiving, via a satellite transponder of a satellite, a first combined uplink signal in an uplink frequency band during a first time, the first combined uplink signal having a first ratio of forward-channel traffic to return-channel traffic according to a flexible allocation of forward-channel and return-channel portions of the uplink frequency band; transmitting a first combined downlink signal during the first time, the first combined downlink signal corresponding to the first combined uplink signal translated to a downlink frequency band via a frequency translator of the satellite transponder; receiving, via the satellite transponder, a second combined uplink signal in the uplink frequency band during a second time, the second combined uplink signal having a second ratio of the forward-channel traffic to the return-channel traffic according to the flexible allocation of forward-channel and return-channel portions of the uplink frequency band, wherein the second ratio is different than the first ratio; and transmitting a second combined downlink signal during the second time, the second combined downlink signal corresponding to the second combined uplink signal translated to the downlink frequency band via the frequency translator of the satellite transponder.

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): 0.7229204247278285
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5359084508996896
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7042192273450145
- Mean Citation Score: 301.203498
- Max Citation Score: 376.9321
- Similarity Product: 312.3050623161316

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

Dataset: test