Patent ID: 7751815
Filing Date: 2010-07-06
Classification: H01Q,H04B,H04W

Abstract:
1. A system for providing wireless data communication services to a plurality of wireless subscriber devices that are located in an aircraft, comprising: aircraft network, located in said aircraft, for generating radio frequency communication signals to communicate with a plurality of wireless subscriber devices that are located in said aircraft to exchange data between said plurality of wireless subscriber devices and said aircraft network; air-to-ground network for bi-directional radio frequency communications between said aircraft and a ground-based communications network having at least one ground-based base station located on the ground for interconnection with at least one packet data switching system; and aircraft interface for interconnecting said aircraft network and said air-to-ground network to establish bi-directional data communications sessions between said wireless subscriber devices and said ground-based communications network to interconnect said wireless subscriber devices with said packet data switching system by exchanging both subscriber data traffic and at least one of network signaling and administrative data on separate concurrently available logical channels, comprising: