Patent ID: RE41023

Claim:
A method for air to ground air- to - ground communication, comprising the steps of: (a) transmitting a request for a data session from an air borne airborne terminal via an airborne transceiver and first antenna using a low bandwidth downlink to a ground based ground- based gateway linked to a server connected to a data network; (b) transmitting a service initiation acknowledgement from the server to the airborne terminal via the ground based ground- based gateway, the low bandwidth downlink, the airborne transceiver and first antenna; (c) transmitting a data request from the airborne terminal to the data network via the airborne transceiver and first antenna, low bandwidth down link, the ground based ground- based gateway and the server; and (d) transmitting the requested data from the data network to the airborne terminal via a high bandwidth satellite uplink, an airborne receiver and second antenna.