{"id":67462,"date":"2017-08-22T01:45:38","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T17:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/hughes-infringed-an-elbit-systems-patent-jury-rules\/"},"modified":"2017-08-22T01:45:38","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T17:45:38","slug":"hughes-infringed-an-elbit-systems-patent-jury-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/hughes-infringed-an-elbit-systems-patent-jury-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Hughes Infringed an Elbit Systems Patent, Jury Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>In response to media inquiries, <strong>Elbit <\/strong>confirmed that on&nbsp;Aug. 7, a jury in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of&nbsp;Texas&nbsp;found <strong>Hughes Network Systems<\/strong> to have infringed one of its patents, which generally relates to high-speed satellite communications.<\/p>\n<p>The jury awarded Elbit Systems damages of approximately&nbsp;$21 million&nbsp;plus interest. However, the court has yet to issue a final order regarding the verdict, and as such the financial impact of this matter is not yet determinable.<\/p>\n<p>According to public documents, the patent centers around a reverse or return link for a satcom system. The return link in combination with a forward link forms a complete two-way communication system via satellite. The link comprises two communications schemes: one that uses a random access method based on a Non-Synchronous Frequency Code Division Multiple Access Technique (NS\/FH\/CDMA), and the other that uses a channel assignment method based on a frequency division multiple access (FDMA) technique.<\/p>\n<p>According to Elbit, the return link provides an alternative solution to existing return links which rely on telephone lines. Thus, the technology is suitable for rural areas where ground-based telephone lines have not been installed, providing access to internet so businesses can take advantage of applications such as video conferencing, collaboration software and document delivery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to media inquiries, Elbit confirmed that on&nbsp;Aug. 7, a jury in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of&nbsp;Texas&nbsp;found Hughes Network Systems to have infringed one of its patents, which generally relates to high-speed satellite communications. The jury awarded Elbit Systems damages of approximately&nbsp;$21 million&nbsp;plus interest. However, the court has yet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67462"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}