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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 2003
Filed:
May. 01, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Peter J. Hadinger, Oakton, VA (US);
Assignee:
TRW Inc., Redondo Beach, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q 7/20 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q 7/20 ;
Abstract
A GSO satellite constellation ( ) and an NGSO constellation ( ) may be used to send various types of communication signals and multimedia signals to an aircraft ( ). The video signals are demodulated by a demodulator ( ) and routed by a router ( ) to TV monitors ( and ), as well as short-term video storage ( ). Data can be received and transmitted by a low gain, narrowband transmitter/receiver ( ) in order to provide voice, computer and control communications at all times during the flight of aircraft ( ).