Ground-to-air telephone calling system and related method

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 5278891
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07759626

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A ground-to-air telephone calling system is provided including a computer for receiving an airborne telephone number and a call-back number from a calling party and forming the telephone numbers into a data signal comporting with existing protocol filed in the FCC, an uplink unit for uplinking the data signal to a satellite and a plurality of downlink stations for receiving the data signal from the satellite; a plurality of ground stations corresponding to each of the downlink units for receiving the data signals and passing a call signal identifying the airborne telephone and particular ground station to a corresponding transmit/receive unit for subsequent transmission to the aircraft; a call being initiated from the ground station to the calling party over the public switched telephone network if the aircraft responds to the call signal.

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MCI LLCONE VERIZON WAY BASKING RIDGE NJ 07920

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Bhagat, Jai P Jackson, MS 14 750
Hays, William D Jackson, MS 19 829
Oswalt, Ernest A Jackson, MS 6 343

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