System and method for enhancing ring alert terminations

摘要

A communication system including a constellation of satellites and a multi-channel unit having a plurality of co-located transceivers operative for exchanging communication information with users, and for monitoring a plurality of spot beams transmitted from one or more of the satellites for ring alert data contained within broadcast channels, and for monitoring and prioritizing the strongest of "n" broadcast channels for ring alerts based upon signal strength, upon a continuous sampling of ring alert channels contained within one or more broadcast channels, upon broadcast signal strength in relation to idle transceiver availability and the communication system geometries, and upon the monitoring of broadcast channels contained within candidate handoff lists contained within one or more of the traffic channels of in-use transceivers, for the purpose of increasing the probability of receiving a ring alert.