公开(公告)号：US20060030311A1

公开(公告)日：2006-02-09

申请号：US11241109

申请日：2005-09-30

申请人： Joseph Cruz ,  Harold Saroka ,  Ivica Kostanic ,  Anand Chari

发明人： Joseph Cruz ,  Harold Saroka ,  Ivica Kostanic ,  Anand Chari

IPC分类号： H04Q7/20

CPC分类号： H01Q1/246 ,  H01Q1/28 ,  H01Q1/32 ,  H04B7/18506 ,  H04B7/18508 ,  H04W16/24 ,  H04W36/08 ,  H04W76/10 ,  H04W84/005 ,  H04W84/042 ,  H04W84/06

摘要： The handoff management system maximizes the communications capacity available from terrestrial air-to-ground cellular networks, while also integrating communications capabilities from satellite air-to-ground cellular networks and terrestrial cellular communications networks. The communications capacity is maximized by dynamically allocating communications from the aircraft over multiple communications channels to multiple cells of the terrestrial air-to-ground cellular network, and to satellite air-to-ground cellular networks and terrestrial mobile networks. This approach effectively provides an increase in the call handling capacity available to any aircraft and permits a gradual transition of communications from one cell to the next cell, rather than requiring an abrupt handover of all traffic from the aircraft from one cell to the next cell.

公开(公告)号：US20060040660A1

公开(公告)日：2006-02-23

申请号：US11240975

申请日：2005-09-30

申请人： Joseph Cruz ,  Ivica Kostanic ,  Harold Saroka ,  Anand Chari

发明人： Joseph Cruz ,  Ivica Kostanic ,  Harold Saroka ,  Anand Chari

IPC分类号： H04Q7/20

CPC分类号： H04B7/18506 ,  H04B7/18508 ,  H04W16/02 ,  H04W16/10 ,  H04W16/12

摘要： The air-to-ground cellular network for deck-to-deck call coverage provides call coverage to customers who are located in aircraft that are flying within the arrival/departure airspace of an airport by trifurcating the spatial coverage regions or volumes of space to solve the problems of inter-network interference while yielding air-to-ground cellular network coverage at any altitude. Three types of cells are considered: an Outer Cell, an Inner Cell and an Airport Cell. The Outer Cell is a macro cell covering a large volume of space and is one of many cells in the composite air-to-ground cellular network. The Inner Cell is created within an Outer Cell and has at its center an airport. The Airport Cell is a part of the Terrestrial Cellular Network (TCN), created by the present terrestrial cellular operators or service providers.

公开(公告)号：US20060276127A1

公开(公告)日：2006-12-07

申请号：US11414873

申请日：2006-05-01

申请人： Joseph Cruz ,  Harold Saroka ,  Ivica Kostanic ,  Anand Chari

发明人： Joseph Cruz ,  Harold Saroka ,  Ivica Kostanic ,  Anand Chari

IPC分类号： H04B7/185

CPC分类号： H01Q1/246 ,  H01Q1/28 ,  H01Q1/32 ,  H04B7/18506 ,  H04B7/18508 ,  H04W16/24 ,  H04W36/08 ,  H04W76/10 ,  H04W84/005 ,  H04W84/042 ,  H04W84/06

摘要： The handoff management system maximizes the communications capacity available from terrestrial air-to-ground cellular networks, while also integrating communications capabilities from satellite air-to-ground cellular networks and terrestrial cellular communications networks. The communications capacity is maximized by dynamically allocating communications from the aircraft over multiple communications channels to multiple cells of the terrestrial air-to-ground cellular network, and to satellite air-to-ground cellular networks and terrestrial mobile networks. This approach effectively provides an increase in the call handling capacity available to any aircraft and permits a gradual transition of communications from one cell to the next cell, rather than requiring an abrupt handover of all traffic from the aircraft from one cell to the next cell.