Patent ID: 8353006

Claim:
A communications system for an aircraft carrying at least one person having a personal electronic device (PED), the communications system comprising: at least one wireless access device; an aircraft server in the aircraft cooperating with said at least one wireless access device for determining airborne validation of at least one ground server address entered via a corresponding PED based on an airborne whitelist of accepted ground server addresses; an air-to-ground transceiver in the aircraft cooperating with said aircraft server for communicating over an air-to-ground interface the at least one airborne validated ground server address; and at least one ground server on the ground for receiving the at least one airborne validated ground server address over the air-to-ground interface, determining ground validation of the at least one airborne validated ground server address based on a ground whitelist of accepted ground server addresses, and providing ground access for the corresponding PED for which the entered at least one ground server address has both airborne and ground validation.