Patent ID: 7920860
Filing Date: 2011-04-05
Classification: H01Q,H04B,H04W

Abstract:
1. A system for managing radio frequency communications in a non-terrestrial region of space between a plurality of wireless subscriber devices located in an aircraft and a plurality of Air-To-Ground terrestrial base stations of an Air-To-Ground cellular communications network, comprising: a plurality of Air-To-Ground terrestrial base stations of said Air-To-Ground cellular communications network for populating said non-terrestrial region of space with a plurality of multi-dimensional Radio Frequency sectors, each multi-dimensional Radio Frequency sector having a plurality of radio frequency characteristics, to exchange call traffic with an aircraft; a plurality of independently operable radio frequency antennas mounted on the exterior surface of said aircraft; interface, located in said aircraft, for generating radio frequency communication signals for selected ones of said plurality of independently operable antennas to establish multiple simultaneous Air-To-Ground Radio Frequency communications links to exchange call traffic between said plurality of wireless subscriber devices and a plurality of cells and sectors of said Air-To-Ground cellular communications network; data flow controller, located in said aircraft, comprising: