Methods and apparatus for assignment and maintenance of unique aircraft addresses for TIS-B services

摘要

Methods and apparatus for assigning a pseudo address to an aircraft not equipped with an ADS-B transponder and maintaining the assigned pseudo address over a number of regions each supported by different TIS-B systems. In an exemplary embodiment, each TIS-B system is assigned a range of addresses particular to the region in which the TIS-B system is located.