Patent assignee · US · COMPANY

AirCell LLC

23Patents
5Active
23Granted
37Portfolio score

Filing activity: Mar 6, 1992 → Jan 28, 2008 · 5 expiring within 5 years

Most-cited patents

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7113780B2 System for integrating an airborne wireless cellular network with terrestrial wireless cellular networks and the public switched telephone network Electricity 305 Expired
US6725035B2 Signal translating repeater for enabling a terrestrial mobile subscriber station to be operable in a non-terrestrial environment Electricity 258 Expired
US5444762A Method and apparatus for reducing interference among cellular telephone signals Electricity 152 Expired
US5557656A Mobile telecommunications for aircraft and land based vehicles Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 148 Expired
US6788935B1 Aircraft-based network for wireless subscriber stations Electricity 135 Expired
US5757322A Cellular weather information system for aircraft Physics 97 Expired
US6408180B1 Ubiquitous mobile subscriber station Electricity 84 Expired
US5832380A Nonterrestrial cellular mobile telecommunication system Electricity 82 Expired
US6108539A Non-terrestrial cellular mobile telecommunication station Electricity 77 Expired
US6377802B1 Doppler insensitive non-terrestrial digital cellular communications network Electricity 69 Expired
US7107062B2 System for managing call handoffs between an aircraft and multiple cell sites Electricity 67 Expired
US5878345A Antenna for nonterrestrial mobile telecommunication system Electricity 56 Expired
US7062268B2 Overlapping spectrum cellular communication networks Electricity 52 Expired
US7702328B2 System for handoff of aircraft-based content delivery to enable passengers to receive the remainder of a selected content from a terrestrial location Electricity 41 Active
US6650898B2 Signal translating repeater for enabling a terrestrial mobile subscriber station to be operable in a non-terrestrial environment Electricity 36 Expired
US7751814B2 System for managing call handoffs between an aircraft and multiple cell sites Electricity 32 Active
US7751815B2 System for integrating an airborne wireless cellular network with terrestrial wireless cellular networks and the public switched telephone network Electricity 29 Active
US5878346A Nonterrestrial cellular mobile telecommunication network Electricity 29 Expired
US6885864B2 Virtual private network for cellular communications Electricity 28 Expired
US5884166A Multidimensional cellular mobile telecommunication system Electricity 24 Expired
US7920860B2 System for managing the multiple air-to-ground communications links originating from each aircraft in an air-to-ground cellular communication network Electricity 24 Active
US5960343A Mobile communications Electricity 22 Expired
US7640016B2 Air-to-ground cellular network for deck-to-deck call coverage Electricity 15 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Counts and citation impact are objective bibliographic measures.