Patent ID: 7113780

Claim:
A system for providing wireless communication services to a plurality of wireless subscriber devices that are located in an aircraft, comprising: aircraft network means located in said aircraft for generating radio frequency communication signals to communicate with at least one of said plurality of wireless subscriber devices that are located in said aircraft, comprising: aircraft cellular communication means for establishing at least one cell site to corrununicate via communications with at least one of said plurality of wireless subscriber devices, a plurality of base station means to communicate via communications with at least one of said plurality of wireless subscriber devices, each at least one of said plurality of base station means operating in a cellular technology that differs from those of the remaining ones of said plurality of base station means; air-to-ground network means for radio frequency communications between said aircraft and a ground-based communications network system having at least one transceiver located on the ground, comprising: a plurality of ground-based base station means for communicating with at least one of said plurality of wireless subscriber devices; and aircraft interface means for interconnecting said aircraft network means and said air-to-ground network means to establish communications between said plurality of wireless subscriber devices and said ground-based communications network by exchanging both subscriber traffic and at least one of network signaling and administrative data on separate concurrently available logical channels between said aircraft network means and said ground-based communications network, comprising: data concentrator means for converting the individual traffic and signaling channels received from said plurality of base station means to an aggregate data stream; wherein said air-to-ground network means further comprises: data router disaggregator means for disaggregating said aggregate data stream by technology into a plurality of data streams and delivering each of said plurality of data streams to a corresponding one of said plurality of ground-based base station means.