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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 31, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2013
Applicants:
Airbus Operations (S.a.s.), Toulouse, FR;
Airbus (S.a.s.), Blagnac, FR;
Inventors:
Assignees:
Airbus Operations (S.A.S.), Toulouse, FR;
Airbus (S.A.S.), Blagnac, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 40/20 (2009.01); H04B 7/185 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 40/20 (2013.01); H04B 7/18506 (2013.01);
Abstract
In a communications network including aircraft in flight and at least one ground station, which constitute communication nodes of the network, data are transmitted from a source node to a destination node following a non-predetermined path through the network that includes at least one node which is a so-called intermediate aircraft. Before transmitting data from a transmitting node to at least one receiving node, it envisages a step of selecting the receiving node defining a portion of the path without knowledge of the next portion of the path.