Patent ID: 8073443
Filing Date: 2011-12-06
Classification: H01Q,H04B,H04W

Abstract:
1. A wireless device number portability system which enables passengers' wireless devices operational onboard an aircraft to receive communications which are directed to their home communication address, comprising: number portability system, located on an aircraft and responsive to activation of a passenger's wireless device onboard the aircraft, for establishing a communication session with said passenger wireless device; Airborne Session Initiated Protocol Client, resident on the passenger wireless device and responsive to said communication session with said number portability system, for automatically identifying the passenger wireless device to the number portability, system; wherein said number portability system comprises: ground-based Aircraft PSTN gateway, connected to a ground-based communication network, for extending communications received from the passenger's home communication system to said Airborne Session Initiated Protocol Client resident on said passenger wireless device; and Aircraft gateway, connected to a wireless network which serves said aircraft, for communicatively interconnecting said wireless network with said ground-based Aircraft PSTN gateway to extend said communications, forwarded to said ground-based Aircraft PSTN gateway by the passenger's home communication system, to said Airborne Session Initiated Protocol Client resident on said passenger wireless device via said wireless network.