US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Nov. 3 for "Store and forward satellite access with discontinuous feeder links and packaging of data" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,711, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Store and forward satellite access with discontinuous feeder links and packaging of data" was invented by Stephen William Edge (Escondido, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) communicates with remote endpoints by accessing a space vehicle (SV) in store and forward (S&F) mode when the SV has no feeder link to a network. The SV includes RAN and CN capability to enable the UE to communicate with an on board proxy. The UE sends mobile originated (MO) voice and data to the proxy in a packaged data set and receives mobile terminated voice and data fro...