Multiplex communications – Communication techniques for information carried in plural... – Adaptive
Reexamination Certificate
2006-11-07
2006-11-07
Nguyen, Lee (Department: 2683)
Multiplex communications
Communication techniques for information carried in plural...
Adaptive
C370S458000, C370S337000, C370S347000, C370S442000, C370S498000, C455S452200
Reexamination Certificate
active
07133418
ABSTRACT:
A satellite communications system provides a communications service to a mobile terminal on which different communications applications may be run. Calls are set up between any of the applications via a satellite to a network management center which provides different service adaptors which adapt the calls to different types of service provided over terrestrial networks such as telephony, facsimile, internet or ATM services. The bandwidth allocated to each call over the satellite link may be varied during the call according to demand either from the relevant application or from the network management center. Multiple calls may be connected concurrently to or from different applications running on the mobile terminal. A maximum bandwidth is allocated to each call. Efficient use is thereby made of the limited bandwidth available over the satellite, according to the instantaneous bandwidth requirements of different applications. For real-time calls requiring multiple slots per frame in a TDMA channel, the slots are mutually spaced apart to reduce delay.
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Harper John Anthony
Macridis Philip
Banner & Witcoff LTD
Inmarsat Global Limited
Nguyen Lee
Perez-Gutierrez Rafael
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