Method for an automatic search by an aircraft of a communication address of a ground entity in an ATN network
US6714783B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Feb 1, 2001 |
| Grant date | Mar 30, 2004 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 1, 2021 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04B7/18502
- WIPO fieldTelecommunications
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A process for the automatic searching by an aircraft for a communication address of a ground entity of an ATN network. In the process, each address is coded according to a hierarchical binary tree structure including several fields. A first field identifies the network and the subsequent fields identify entities of the network. The process determines in the aircraft the address of the communication center to be contacted from the identity of an ground router which it receives, by comparing the received address of the router with those of the addresses contained in a database of the aircraft, and retaining as an address that which has the largest number of characters in common with the address of the ground router, given the tree structure of the addresses. Such a process may find particular application to ATN communications.
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