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Telecommunications > Radiotelephone System > Zoned Or Cellular Telephone System > Airborne Or Aircraft Airborne Or AircraftAirborne Or Aircraft patent applications listed are from June 2005 to current and include Date, Patent Application Number, Patent Title, Patent Abstract summary and are linked to the corresponding patent application page.02/22/07 - 20070042774 - Broadband security data communications system for in-flight aircraft A broadband security data communications system for in-flight aircraft has been developed. The system includes multiple overlapping ground stations that communicate with an in-flight aircraft via the to IEEE 802.16 Air Interface Standard. Security Data including video surveillance of the aircraft is then transmitted to the ground. ... 02/22/07 - 20070042773 - Broadband wireless communication system for in-flight aircraft A broadband wireless communication system for in-flight aircraft has been developed. The system includes multiple ground transmission stations that are located along a predefined air corridor within overlapping communications range and a receiver station located on board the in-flight aircraft. The ground transmission stations provide a broadband wireless communications link ... 02/22/07 - 20070042772 - Position location for airborne networks A wireless communications system, and a corresponding method, for use with an aircraft, includes airborne pico cell base stations mounted on the aircraft, the base stations capable of communication with wireless devices used by subscribers on the aircraft via using switching/transaction processing equipment located optionally on the aircraft or in ... 01/25/07 - 20070021117 - 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 no special considerations associated with their operation, even though the wireless subscriber devices are located on an aircraft in flight. This architecture requires that the non-terrestrial ... 12/28/06 - 20060293049 - Communication network acceleration system and method A system and method for mobile ground-to-air and air-to-ground communication network acceleration. The system and method can reduce the cost of airborne communication services by creating a faster connection and thus increasing data throughput. In one embodiment, the communication network acceleration system and method provide as much as a four-fold ... 11/09/06 - 20060252422 - 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 aircraft cabin wireless local area network (LAN) within which the PDA device can operate, a communications management unit (CMU) associated with the wireless ... 10/19/06 - 20060234700 - 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 satellite radio receiver. A local area network (LAN) connects the digital satellite radio receiver for providing digital satellite radio signals to the ... 10/12/06 - 20060229070 - Soft handoff method and apparatus for mobile vehicles using directional antennas A system and method for implementing soft handoffs in a cellular communications system on a mobile platform. The system employs an antenna controller in communication with a beam forming network that generates two independently aimable lobes from a single beam. The single beam is radiated by a phased array antenna ... 08/17/06 - 20060183474 - Aircraft communications system and related method for communicating between portable wireless communications device and ground An aircraft communications system includes a wireless local area network (LAN) access point positioned within the aircraft that receives and transmits wireless communications to and from at least one portable wireless communications device. A control panel is operatively connected to the wireless LAN access point and positioned within the flight ... 08/10/06 - 20060178143 - Communication system using multiple link terminals for aircraft A communication system has a communication infrastructure and a gateway station communicating a communication signal to the communication infrastructure. An airplane having an antenna coupled to a processing circuit for establishing a plurality of multiple communication links corresponding to the communication infrastructure is used. The gateway station generates multiple datagrams ... 08/10/06 - 20060178142 - Mobile millimeter wave communication link A point-to-point, wireless, millimeter wave communications link between two stations at least one of which is a mobile station. A millimeter wave transmitter system operating at frequencies higher than 57 GHz with a tracking antenna producing a beam having a half-power beam width of about 2 degrees or less and ... 08/10/06 - 20060178141 - Adaptive communications system and method System and method for the adaptive control of VHF communications in aircraft. In one embodiment, the invention includes an adaptive communications system for an aircraft having a communications processor that accesses a communications switching model to select a preferred ground communications station. In another embodiment, a method of communication between ... 06/29/06 - 20060142002 - Area entertainment system including digital radio service and associated methods An area entertainment system includes a headend unit, and electronic boxes spaced throughout the area. The headend unit includes a digital satellite radio receiver. A local area network (LAN) connects the digital satellite radio receiver for providing digital satellite radio signals to the electronic boxes. The entertainment system further includes ... 06/08/06 - 20060121893 - System for measuring turbulence remotely A system and method for detecting turbulence includes several mobile platforms, a mobile platform velocity sensor, and several electromagnetic energy transmitters and receivers. The receivers receive the energy transmitted by the transmitter(s) after it has traveled along a path subject to the turbulence. The receivers detect alterations of the energy ... 05/04/06 - 20060094422 - Internal cavity surveillance system (icss) This document will describe and relate a new, improved, and innovative “virtual” all-inclusive system/process of total connectivity. This connectivity can be achieved under the umbrella of my invention titled Internal Cavity System (ICSS). The object here is to improve/combine these components—as well as creating new products to enhance ICSS's development—into ... 03/23/06 - 20060063529 - Sub-orbital, high altitude communications system A sub-orbital, high altitude communications system comprising at least two ground stations and at least one high altitude relay station. Each of the ground stations including means for sending and receiving telecommunications signals. The relay stations include means for receiving and sending telecommunications signals from and to said ground stations ... 03/02/06 - 20060046715 - 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 encoded messages, which originate from verbalized messages, may be transmitted using conventional and future radio frequency (RF) radio communication technologies. Virtual channels are employed to enable a ... 02/23/06 - 20060040660 - Air-to-ground cellular network for deck-to-deck call coverage The air-to-ground cellular network for deck-to-deck call coverage provides call coverage to customers who are located in aircraft that are flying within the arrival/departure airspace of an airport by trifurcating the spatial coverage regions or volumes of space to solve the problems of inter-network interference while yielding air-to-ground cellular network ... 02/09/06 - 20060030311 - 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 air-to-ground cellular networks and terrestrial cellular communications networks. The communications capacity is maximized by dynamically allocating communications from the aircraft over multiple communications channels to multiple cells of the ... 10/27/05 - 20050239457 - Extraterrestrial communications systems and methods including ancillary extraterrestrial components A system for communications on an extraterrestrial body may include a space-based component and an ancillary extraterrestrial component on the extraterrestrial body. The space-based component may be configured to provide wireless communications with a plurality of radioterminals located on the extraterrestrial body over a satellite frequency band wherein the space-based ... 10/20/05 - 20050233739 - Status reporting system and method A status reporting system for components used in a mobile platform includes a fault manager within the mobile platform for assigning a state indicator to each component. Each state indicator indicates the operational current state of the component. A management system external to the mobile platform, in one example being ... 10/06/05 - 20050221818 - Dynamic configuration management Configuration of hardware and software onboard a mobile platform may be dynamically managed without significantly impacting a data stream from the mobile platform. Configuration data for equipment and resident software aboard a mobile platform is electronically reported in the form of a part number and a serial number. The configuration ... 09/29/05 - 20050215249 - Systems and methods for wireless communications onboard aircraft A method for communicating between an airborne mobile terminal and a terrestrial location via satellite, whereby a number of encode/decode modules are eliminated from the communications path, thereby reducing the transmission delay and improving the quality of the transmitted voice data. ... 08/18/05 - 20050181787 - Systems and methods for encoding and decoding data messages A system and method for allowing changes to Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1) defined messages without initiating regulatory requirements. The system receives a message formatted according to ASN.1 compatible encoding rules, such as Basic Encoding Rules (BER) or Packed Encoding Rules (PER) and decodes the received message based on a ... 07/21/05 - 20050159151 - Communication system for passengers in transport The invention relates to a communication system for passengers in a means of transport, such as an aeroplane, train, bus or ship. In order to provide a communication system for business passengers whereby said passengers can work comfortably during their journey and can obtain and send necessary data and information ... 07/07/05 - 20050148327 - Systems and methods of recording events onboard a vehicle A system is provided that comprises a vehicle (e.g., aircraft) including a plurality of modules (e.g., line-replaceable units—LRU's) capable of communicating over a plurality of buses (e.g., Mil-Std-1553 buses). The system also includes an advanced wireless open data controller (AWOC) capable of receiving data output onto the buses of the ... 06/09/05 - 20050124337 - System and method for airborne passenger electronic communication An electronic communication system for use onboard an aircraft includes a server and a plurality of input ports for connection with passenger computing devices. Passengers can send and retrieve electronic messages (e-mail and/or attachments) using a proxy-based web server access to the user's own e-mail service provider. The system receives ... ### FreshPatents.com Support |