Patent ID: 7822415

Claim:
An in-flight transceiver system for communicating an information securely at a high data rate between an in-flight unit and a ground unit comprising: an antenna; an aviation box conforming to a one-half, half short Air Transport Rack (ATR) form factor comprising a transceiver and a global positioning system (GPS) unit; a switch between the aviation box and the antenna for controlling a data signal between the antenna and the transceiver, and an interface comprising a servicing data connector and an in-flight data connector coupled to the in-flight unit wherein connecting a cable to the servicing data connector automatically disables the in-flight data connector, wherein the transceiver operates at a data rate of greater than approximately 800 bits per second (bps) when sending information from the in-flight unit to the ground unit and greater than approximately 2800 bps when receiving information at the in-flight unit from the ground unit, and wherein the information from the in-flight unit to the ground unit and the information from the ground unit to the in-flight unit is packet encrypted using a Triple Data Encryption Standard (DES) algorithm and an Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm, or a DES algorithm and a Rivest Shamir Adleman (RSA) algorithm, or an AES algorithm and an RSA algorithm.