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7317916 Stratospheric-based communication system for mobile users using additional phased array elements for interference rejection  
A communication system has a stratospheric platform with a payload controller and a phased array antenna having a plurality of main array elements for generating a plurality of communication beams...
7313143 Method for diversity site group operations in air/ground communications  
Shortcomings in conventional Very High Frequency (VHF) Digital Link Mode 3 (VDL-3) communication techniques for implementing air/ground (A/G) diversity site group (DSG) communication are identified...
7313362 High altitude airborne craft used as radio relay and method for placing said airborne craft on station  
The present invention relates to an aircraft and to a method of getting the aircraft onto station. According to the invention, said aircraft ( 1 ) includes propulsion means ( 2 ) capable only of...
7280825 Aircraft in-flight entertainment system including low power transceivers and associated methods  
An aircraft in-flight entertainment (IFE) system includes an antenna, an external communications transceiver connected to the antenna for communicating external the aircraft, and a plurality of...
7272356 Information delivery system  
In an information distribution system for outputting information using an information output unit that is distributed from an information distribution unit, it is an object of the present invention...
7263356 Global roaming services for telecommunications systems  
A system and method for extending a user's communications services to an airplane seat telephone terminal proximate the user while the user is aboard an airplane is provided. The system includes a...
7260389 Mobile platform distributed data load management system  
A method for loading software items on a mobile platform computer based system includes storing published content in a published content repository of a distributed data manager system (DDMS)...
7251550 Aircraft accessory monitor  
Methods and apparatus are provided for monitoring an aircraft accessory. The apparatus comprises a processor associated with said aircraft accessory, a transducer coupled to said processor and...
7245909 Telephony control in the flight deck  
A communications system having a plurality of radio communication modes with an audio component, the audio component of the radio communication modes being controlled through an audio panel, and a...
7242931 System and method for providing voice and data communications between persons onboard a mobile platform and a cellular base station  
A communications system and method for providing a cellular communications link between a user traveling on a mobile platform (or at a remote location) and a terrestrial based segment. The system...
7221290 Packetized voice communication method and system  
A packetized voice communication method and system. Techniques are disclosed for supporting communication between aircraft and ground stations using packetized digitally-encoded messages. The...
7206575 Method of remotely estimating a rest or best lock frequency of a local station receiver using telemetry  
A system includes a remote station and a local station having a receiver. The receiver operates in an unlocked state corresponding to its best lock frequency (BLF). The local station derives data...
7203491 Unmanned lighter-than-air safe termination and recovery methods  
Innovative new methods in connection with lighter-than-air free floating platforms, of facilitating legal transmitter operation, platform flight termination when appropriate, environmentally...
7187927 Global cell phone system and method for aircraft  
A global airborne cell phone system is used for cell phone calls by using a pico cell. A switch connected to the pico cell switches the cell phone call between a first radio that transmits to a...
7184763 VHF ground station selection algorithm  
An apparatus, method and computer program for initiating and maintaining a virtual connection between a mobile radio and a ground station, including receiving a plurality of ground station radio...
7184761 Satellite communications system  
A communication system has a plurality of ground stations for communicating communication signal to a plurality of satellites located in an inclined elliptical sub-geosynchronous orbit with respect...
7177638 Aircraft in-flight entertainment system including digital radio service and associated methods  
An aircraft in-flight entertainment (IFE) system includes a headend unit, and a plurality of seat electronic boxes (SEBs) spaced throughout the aircraft. The headend unit includes a digital...
7171197 Mobile wireless local area network and related methods  
A wireless local area network adapted for use by users traveling on a mobile platform such as an aircraft. The network includes a network server located on the mobile platform, and at least one...
7162235 Aircraft base station for wireless devices  
A telecommunication system includes an interface device on board an aircraft that interfaces with a wireless phone of a user inside the aircraft and with a wireless bearer system, and a controller...
7158821 Node and onboard station for setting up at any time a call involving a passenger on a vehicle  
Passengers on board a vehicle make and receive calls via a satellite network. That network sees each passenger involved in a call as a temporary dummy subscriber of the satellite network. Thus the...
7146147 Aircraft wireless communication system and method  
A system and method for providing wireless communication services to passengers of an aircraft. An incoming signal is received from a base station at an external antenna on the aircraft. The...
7142854 In-flight communications system  
An in-flight communications system and method suitable for discrete use by, e.g., an Air Marshal, includes a personal digital assistant (PDA) device having wireless communications capabilities, an...
7139567 Tone based command system for reception of very weak signals  
This disclosure presents a communication receiver system for spacecraft that includes an open loop receiver adapted to receive a communication signal. An ultrastable oscillator (USO) and a tone...
7136621 Return link design for PSD limited mobile satellite communication systems  
A system and method for managing access to a satellite-based transponder by a plurality of aircraft each having a mobile radio frequency (RF) system. The system employs a ground-based, central...
7136643 Real-time programming of electronic radio system resource assets  
A method to efficiently implement a reconfigurable electronic radio system ( 400 ) including resource assets ( 402–408, 410–416, 418, 420–426, 428 ) and a processor ( 428 ). The processor (...
7123169 Method and apparatus for collaborative aggregate situation awareness  
A surveillance method comprises the steps of: sending information requests to one or more of a plurality of unmanned airborne platforms, each carrying one or more sensors for gathering information;...
7123905 Call diversion system  
An interface ( 52 ) is provided between a satellite telephone system ( 4 ) and a cellular telephone system ( 5 ) for allowing calls to a user's cellular telephone to be diverted to a satellite...
7120435 Mobile cellular radio  
A method of forwarding a data message to a vehicle is provided. The method includes registering a user's cellular identity as present aboard a vehicle; receiving a data message intended for the...
7113780 System for integrating an airborne wireless cellular network with terrestrial wireless cellular networks and the public switched telephone network  
The present non-terrestrial feature transparency system spoofs the Air-to-Ground Network and the ground-based cellular communication network into thinking that the wireless subscriber devices have...
7113779 Carrier  
The transportation system, such a airplane, which comprises the cabin, the internal antenna system, and the external antenna system. The voice data and the non-voice data of a plurality of...
7107062 System for managing call handoffs between an aircraft and multiple cell sites  
The handoff management system maximizes the communications capacity available from terrestrial air-to-ground cellular networks, while also integrating communications capabilities from satellite...
7099665 Apparatus and method for providing satellite link status notification  
A system and method for informing users of a possible disruption in a communications link established between users traveling on a mobile platform and a fixed base station. In one preferred form,...
7085562 Method, apparatus and computer program product for implementing and organizing an AD-HOC aviation data communication network  
An airborne telecommunications network uses airborne aircraft to route message traffic between a source and destination.
7085563 Fail-over of forward link equipment  
A communications system and method for transmitting data to a mobile platform is provided. The communications system comprises a forward link assignment manager in communication with a route server...
7073749 High altitude reconnaissance vehicle  
An airship deployment system comprises an airship of unique shape having laminar flow over this shape to enable low power propulsion, capable remote control, comprising an inflatable body; a...
7062268 Overlapping spectrum cellular communication networks  
The overlapping spectrum cellular communication network functions to provide multiple cellular communication systems in the same spectrum as the existing NATS-based cellular communication system,...
7058401 Vehicle telephone system  
A telephone system for a vehicle comprising: a vehicle transceiver, on board said vehicle, and connectable to a cellular telephone network for bi-directional communication therewith; a server...
7054593 Return link design for PSD limited mobile satellite communication systems  
A system and method for managing access to a satellite-based transponder by a plurality of aircraft each having a mobile radio frequency (RF) system. The system employs a ground-based, central...
7050801 Method and system for hitless wireless roaming in a mobile environment  
A method and system for hitless wireless roaming in a mobile environment. The present invention describes a system for wireless connectivity in fast moving trains. The system comprises a router for...
7035634 In-flight e-mail system  
Systems and methods for sending and receiving e-mail from a terminal on a vehicle are provided. According to one embodiment, a passenger in a vehicle, such as an airplane, has access to a terminal...
7035585 System and method for interfacing satellite communications with aircraft  
A system for interfacing commercial satellite communications technology with military aircraft communications systems is disclosed. The system includes an off-board commercial transceiver and an...
7027769 GEO stationary communications system with minimal delay  
A method for communicating and a communications system apparatus are disclosed. The apparatus comprises a communications platform and a gateway communicatively coupleable with a terrestrially-based...
7027812 Channel selection in aircraft communications system by determining zone load and selecting alternate carrier  
An apparatus, method and computer program product that utilizes user defined channel and frequency preferences to effect airborne voice and data telecommunications.
7020708 Aircraft data services  
A method and system provide efficient, flexible, and convenient data communication services over public wireless systems. The system includes a data communication server, having a plurality of...
7016674 Slice based architecture for a multifunction radio  
An electronic radio system multifunction slice ( 100 ) for a electronic radio system ( 400 ). The slice ( 100 ) includes an antenna interface ( 102 ), several multi-band transceivers ( 106–112 ),...
7006850 Systems, apparatus, and methods for cockpit interface system with digital audio radio management unit  
Communication devices, such as a radio and a cockpit communication panel, digitally communicate audio signals as digital data without use of a synchronizing clock signal between the devices. The...
7006816 System and a method for locating a mobile terminal, in particular for rescuing in distress, and a device for alerting a corresponding mobile terminal  
A system for locating a mobile terminal, in particular for rescuing a person in distress equipped with the said mobile terminal. The mobile terminal is of a type able to communicate via the base...
7003278 Portable search and rescue system  
A search and rescue system comprising an integral Interrogation, Decoding and Display Unit and a plurality of Personal Survival Units which can intercommunicate and are capable of transmitting GPS...
7003293 Network system having multiple subnets for a mobile platform  
A method for assigning Internet Protocol addresses in a communications system for an aircraft according to the invention includes the steps of creating an air-to-ground network (AGN), a passenger...
6999758 System and method for providing communications services  
An enhanced services system for a telecommunications network includes operator equipment accessible by an operator, and a routing system for routing a call from a caller to the operator equipment....
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