Patent · US Active

Scalable communication system, method and apparatus

US7509144B2 · kind B2 · utility

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37Claims

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Assignee

VT IDIRECT, INC. · US

Inventors

David D. Bettinger · Chantilly, US
Hai Q. Tang · Olney, US
Christopher Robert Burdick · Leesburg, US
Joseph J. Boone · Fairfax, US
Gregory Carey Braunberg · Manassas, US
Hao Cheng · Shanghai, CN
Jason B. Maiorana · Vienna, US
Chao Liu · Beijing, CN

Key dates

Filing date	Dec 16, 2004
Grant date	Mar 24, 2009
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Oct 16, 2026

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04B7/18569
WIPO fieldTelecommunications
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A communication system, method, computer program product, and apparatus include common equipment shared between multiple independently administered networks. The common equipment is reconfigurable and expandable and provides changed communication capacity and functions when additional elements are added or reconfigured. Configurable features include, for example, communication bandwidth, Quality of Service, and a number of communication satellites included in the communication system. The common equipment includes expandable elements including, for example, a single hub modem chassis that can expand to communicate with more than one communication satellite and a protocol processor that can share a protocol processing task with another protocol processors.

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