David B Edsberg

US Patent:

20050152300, Jul 14, 2005

Filed:

Dec 16, 2004

Appl. No.:

11/012269

Inventors:

David Edsberg - Herndon VA, US

Assignee:

iDirect Incorporated - Herndon VA

International Classification:

H04L012/56
H04L012/28
H04B007/204
H04B007/185

US Classification:

370316000, 370400000

Abstract:

A communication system, method, computer program product, and apparatus include common equipment shared between multiple independently administered networks. The common equipment is reconfigurable and expandable and provides changed communication capacity and functions when additional elements are added or reconfigured. Configurable features include, for example, communication bandwidth, Quality of Service, and a number of communication satellites included in the communication system. The common equipment includes expandable elements including, for example, a single hub modem chassis that can expand to communicate with more than one communication satellite and a protocol processor that can share a protocol processing task with another protocol processors.

US Patent:

8027318, Sep 27, 2011

Filed:

Jun 29, 2005

Appl. No.:

10/584054

Inventors:

David Edsberg - Eagle Mountain UT, US

Assignee:

VT Idirect, Inc. - Herndon VA

International Classification:

H04W 4/00

US Classification:

370338, 370316

Abstract:

A method of acquiring a remote node in a communication network includes sending a first acquisition command from a hub to the remote that instructs the remote to send an acquisition response and includes a first frequency (S). The method also includes sending a first acquisition response based on the first acquisition command from the remote to the hub using the first frequency (S) and sending a second acquisition command from the hub before receiving the first acquisition response at the hub (S). A related method of acquiring a remote node in a synchronous communication network and a related hub apparatus, remote apparatus, computer program product and system each include similar features.