Patent ID: 8488556

Claim:
System for speech, data, or speech and data communication between a mobile telephone ( 1 ) on board an aircraft and terminals ( 1 ) in communication networks outside the aircraft, characterized in that the system has: a) on board the aircraft: i) a wireless communication network ( 2 ) for communication with the mobile telephone ( 1 ), ii) a communication server ( 3 ), with which telephone numbers which can be dialled from outside the aircraft are associated, iii) devices that transmit and receive ( 4 ) for communication with a ground communication network; b) an association server ( 8 ), which can be arranged on board the aircraft or stationary and is designed to associate a telephone number, which can be dialled from outside the aircraft, of the communication server ( 3 ) with a mobile telephone number; c) in the mobile telephone ( 1 ), an application having the following features: i) the application allows the user of the mobile telephone ( 1 ) to select the aircraft, flight aircraft and flight in on which the user wishes to use the mobile telephone ( 1 ), ii) the application is designed to notify the association server ( 8 ) of this selection, iii) the application is designed to receive a telephone number, which is allocated by the association server ( 8 ) and can be dialled from outside the aircraft, of the communication server ( 3 ), iv) the application is designed to activate call diversion from the mobile telephone to the telephone number, which is allocated by the association server ( 8 ) and can be dialled from outside the aircraft, of the communication server ( 3 ), as soon as the mobile telephone ( 1 ) is on board the aircraft in the area of the wireless communication network ( 2 ) of this aircraft for communication with the mobile telephone ( 1 ).