IP Library Granted Patent US 11,870,620
Granted Patent B2
US 11,870,620 · App. 17/646,359 · Granted Jan 9, 2024

Satellite receiver including pre-equalizer to compensate for linear impairments

Inventor: Bala Subramaniam (Potomac, MD)
Assignee: Hughes Networks Systems
H04L27/01H04L25/03019H04L25/03891
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Patent No.
US 11,870,620
App. No.
17/646,359
Granted
Jan 9, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

A receiver and method for compensating for linear impairments at a receiver including receiving an Rx signal including an asymmetric response of a satellite filter; pre-equalizing the Rx signal with a coefficient; and demodulating, after the pre-equalizing, the Rx signal.

Claims (27)

1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having instructions embodied thereon, the instructions being executable by one or more processors to perform a method for compensating for linear impairments at a receiver, the method comprising:

receiving an Rx signal comprising an asymmetric response of a satellite filter;

pre-equalizing the Rx signal with a coefficient;

demodulating, after the pre-equalizing, the Rx signal;

detecting a Pre-Equalizer PLS (Physical Layer Scrambling) code in a PL header embedded in the Rx signal;

capturing a received training sequence after the detecting;

computing the coefficient to converge the received training sequence with a known sequence; and

updating the coefficient of the pre-equalizing to the computed coefficient.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising associating the coefficient with a beam providing the Rx signal.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising receiving the coefficient from a gateway.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the Rx signal comprises a DVB-S2 (Digital Video Broadcasting-Satellite-Second Generation) continuous or bursty signal.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the Rx signal comprises frames, one of the frames comprises the pre-equalizer PLS code and the received training sequence.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein a subsequent frame to the one of the frames comprises the pre-equalizer PLS code and the received training sequence.

7. The method of claim 5 , further comprising identifying a unique word indicating a frame start in the one of the frames; and triggering the capturing after the identifying and the detecting succeed in the one of the frames.

8. A receiver to compensate for linear impairments, the receiver comprising:

an Rx signal comprising an asymmetric response of a satellite filter;

a pre-equalizer to pre-equalize the Rx signal with a coefficient; and

a demodulator to demodulate the Rx signal after the pre-equalizer;

a UWP (Unique Word Processor) to detect a Pre-Equalizer PLS (Physical Layer Scrambling) code in a PL header embedded in the Rx signal;

a memory to capture a received training sequence after the detection; and

a software processor to compute the coefficient to converge the received training sequence with a known sequence and to update the coefficient of the pre-equalizer to the computed coefficient.

9. The receiver of claim 8 , wherein the coefficient is associated with a beam providing the Rx signal.

10. The receiver of claim 8 , wherein the coefficient is received from a gateway.

11. The receiver of claim 8 , wherein the Rx signal comprises a DVB-S2 (Digital Video Broadcasting-Satellite-Second Generation) continuous or bursty signal.

12. The receiver of claim 8 , wherein the Rx signal comprises frames, one of the frames comprises the pre-equalizer PLS code and the received training sequence.

13. The receiver of claim 12 , wherein a subsequent frame to the one of the frames comprises the pre-equalizer PLS code and the received training sequence.

14. The receiver of claim 12 , wherein the UWP identifies a unique word indicating a frame start in the one of the frames and triggers a memory capture.

Assignments (3)
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded May 14, 2024
From: HUGHES NETWORK SYSTEMS, LLC
To: U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
Reel/Frame 067407/0535 →
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Feb 10, 2022
From: HUGHES NETWORK SYSTEMS, LLC
To: U.S. BANK GLOBAL CORPORATE TRUST WEST SIDE FLATS, ST. PAUL
Reel/Frame 058971/0319 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 29, 2021
From: SUBRAMANIAN, BALA
To: HUGHES NETWORK SYSTEMS, LLC
Reel/Frame 058500/0188 →