System and method for efficiently using channel unit hardware to provide multiple narrowband channels overlaid on a single wideband channel in a satellite communications network

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 7170889
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10141109

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A system and method for the efficient use of satellite radio modems and satellite bandwidth is disclosed. In the system and method, a satellite radio modem is used for PRACH requests, each PRACH request occupying 31.25 kHz in a packet data transfer channel. The packet data transfer channels can be either 125.0 kHz or 156.25 kHz. Therefore, four PRACH requests can be transmitted in any one packet data transfer channel. The packet data transfer channels are broken into eight time slots, and one time slot in each channel (either the odd frame or even frame) is dedicated to a PRACH request. A satellite radio modem for PDCH transfers is dedicated for each channel. The satellite radio modem assigned to receive the four PRACH requests is timeshared over 16 channels, thereby reducing the amount of satellite radio modems that would otherwise have been needed, had the PRACH request transmissions utilized a dedicated modem for each PRACH request, for each channel.

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U S BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATIONU S BANCORP CENTER 800 NICOLLET MALL MINNEAPOLIS MN 55402

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Eagling, Trevor Frederick, MD 5 95
Gupta, Sanjay Gaithersburg, MD 227 5181

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