公开(公告)号：US10097316B2

公开(公告)日：2018-10-09

申请号：US15165890

申请日：2016-05-26

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Jelena Damnjanovic ,  Gene Wesley Marsh ,  Mario Maro Scipione ,  Qiang Wu

IPC: H04W4/00 ,  H04L1/18 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04B7/185 ,  H04B7/204

Abstract: A method and apparatus for operating a controller for a satellite communications system during inter-beam handovers. In some aspects, the controller may perform an inter-beam handover by switching communications with a user terminal from a first beam to a second beam of a satellite. The controller receives a feedback message form the user terminal, via the first beam, after the inter-beam handover is completed, and may then selectively retransmit data to the user terminal via the second beam based at least in part on the feedback message.