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In-flight transceiver and locator system

  • US 7,822,415 B2
  • Filed: 11/02/2006
  • Issued: 10/26/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/02/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An in-flight transceiver system for communicating an information securely at a high data rate between an in-flight unit and a ground unit comprising:

  • an antenna;

    an aviation box conforming to a one-half, half short Air Transport Rack (ATR) form factor comprising a transceiver and a global positioning system (GPS) unit;

    a switch between the aviation box and the antenna for controlling a data signal between the antenna and the transceiver, andan interface comprising a servicing data connector and an in-flight data connector coupled to the in-flight unit wherein connecting a cable to the servicing data connector automatically disables the in-flight data connector,wherein the transceiver operates at a data rate of greater than approximately 800 bits per second (bps) when sending information from the in-flight unit to the ground unit and greater than approximately 2800 bps when receiving information at the in-flight unit from the ground unit, andwherein the information from the in-flight unit to the ground unit and the information from the ground unit to the in-flight unit is packet encrypted using a Triple Data Encryption Standard (DES) algorithm and an Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm, or a DES algorithm and a Rivest Shamir Adleman (RSA) algorithm, or an AES algorithm and an RSA algorithm.

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