Stephanie J Demers

US Patent:

6985455, Jan 10, 2006

Filed:

Aug 2, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/631269

Inventors:

Robert Jeff Heath - San Diego CA, US
Robert J. Torres - Germantown MD, US
Sreenivas Ramaswamy - Bethesda MD, US
Stephanie Demers - Edison NJ, US

Assignee:

Hughes Electronics Corporation - El Segundo CA

International Classification:

H04B 7/185

US Classification:

370316, 370414, 370429

Abstract:

An approach for allocating bandwidth in a satellite communication system is disclosed. The system includes a set of global queues that store bandwidth requests, which are received from a number of satellite terminals. The received bandwidth request include a high priority rate request, a low priority rate request, a high priority volume request, and a low priority volume request. A bandwidth control processor determines bandwidth request type and priority of the received bandwidth requests and places the bandwidth requests in the appropriate global queues based upon the determined bandwidth request type and priority. Each of the global queues corresponds to a data rate associated with of each a plurality of channels. The system also utilizes a set of local queues that correspond to the channels. The BCP moves the bandwidth requests from the global queues to the local queues.