Patent ID: 8860603

Claim:
A method for real-time management and sequencing of information interchanges between a secondary radar and a plurality of aircraft, the interchanges between the secondary radar and one of the plurality of aircraft being performed either in a non-selective, SSR, IFF or “All Call” interrogation mode or in a selective “Roll Call” interrogation mode, the method comprising: performing information interchanges during successive periods with the secondary radar when the information interchanges are according to the non-selective interrogation modes, each period being specifically allocated to one or more of the non-selective interrogation modes; and performing the information interchanges in a form of transactions with the secondary radar when the information interchanges are in selective interrogation mode, each transaction forming an information interchange between the secondary radar and the one of the plurality of aircraft and being temporally inserted into time slots not used for interrogation-response tasks in the non-selective interrogation mode in the periods allocated to the non-selective interrogation modes.