Patent ID: 8145208

Claim:
A system for managing radio frequency communications in a non-terrestrial region of space between a plurality of wireless subscriber devices located in an aircraft and an Air-To-Ground cellular communications network, comprising: a plurality of Air-To-Ground terrestrial base stations of said Air-To-Ground cellular communications network for populating said non-terrestrial region of space with a plurality of multi-dimensional Radio Frequency sectors to exchange call traffic between said plurality of wireless subscriber devices and said Air-To-Ground cellular communications network, each of said multi-dimensional Radio Frequency sectors producing a plurality of three-dimensional antenna patterns having an extent in azimuth and angular elevation above a horizontal plane, each of said base station three-dimensional antenna patterns in a plurality of three-dimensional antenna patterns having different extents in azimuth and angular elevation above a horizontal plane than the three-dimensional antenna pattern of others in said plurality of three-dimensional antenna patterns plurality of multi-dimensional Radio Frequency sectors; and antenna pattern polarizer for polarizing adjacent ones of said plurality of three-dimensional antenna patterns in a sector from among at least two substantially orthogonal polarizations.