Patent ID: 6965771

Claim:
A system for selecting applications which can be activated through an aeronautical telecommunication network and for providing a local terminal with the ability to link to the aeronautical telecommunication network and be a party to communications using non-air traffic control (non-ATC) applications, comprising: a first table configured to catalog the non-ATC applications available at the local terminal; a second table configured to catalog the non-ATC applications available at one or more preselected remote terminals, or at one or more remote terminal for which communication has previously been established through the aeronautical telecommunication network; first means for consulting the first table, the first means for consulting being activated by a request for communications by a local terminal; second means for consulting the second table, the second means for consulting being activated with each attempt made by the non-ATC application of the local terminal to logon through the aeronautical telecommunication network, wherein the second means for consulting either authorizes logon if the remote terminal requested is cataloged in the second table for the relevant non-ATC application, or denies logon if the remote terminal is not listed in the second table for the relevant non-ATC application; means for remotely interrogating a third table corresponding to the remote terminal that is to be contacted through the aeronautical telecommunication network; means for updating the first table by monitoring the availability of the non-ATC applications possessed by the local terminal, and means for updating the second table by at least partially copying the third table corresponding to the remote terminal that is to be contacted using the means for remotely interrogating the third table.