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Wireless aircraft network and method for wirelessly connecting aircraft in a network

US10284282B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

AIRBUS OPERATIONS LIMITED · DE

Inventors

Nicholas Brownjohn · Buxtehude, DE
Stéphane Poulain · Hamburg, DE
Sven Knefelkamp · Wedel, DE
Igor Ibáñez Martin · Hamburg, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Aug 6, 2015
Grant date	May 7, 2019
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Mar 17, 2036

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04W84/18
WIPO fieldTelecommunications
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A wireless aircraft network includes a plurality of aircrafts having transceiver devices for transceiving wireless communication, a plurality of ground-based network stations having transceiver devices for transceiving wireless communication, and a network operator station configured to store location data regarding the current geographical location of the plurality of aircrafts in a location data table of the network operator station and to determine a most efficient network path for each of the plurality of aircrafts to one of a plurality of ground-based network stations depending on the current geographical location of the plurality of aircrafts and the geographical location of the plurality of ground-based network stations.

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