ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,917, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"System for satellite data traffic shaping" was invented by Dandan Wang (Lynnwood, Wash.), Daniel Todd Cohn (Bainbridge Island, Wash.), Arunabha Ghosh (Bellevue, Wash.), Anil Rao (Redmond, Wash.) and Andrew B. Dickinson (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A constellation of satellites provides communication services to user terminals (UTs). Downstream data addressed to a UT is received at a point-of-presence (POP) and tokenized before sending to a satellite serving the UT. Tokens are associated with resource blocks (RBs), each RB indicative of a particular ...